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Vol. XVII.

OCTOBER, 1913.

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" Nothing so difficult as a beginning," says Byron, and if he found it so, how much more must a. young and inAs experienced editor, trying to write his first editorial. all last year's editors have left us, the School portion of the Magazine is in new and untried hands. We therefore beg our readers to remember that we can but do our best, and we ask their forgiveness for our manifold faults and shortcomings.

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We have great pleasure in welcoming to the School Mr. C. R. Leslie Miller, our new drawing master. Mr. Miller was educated at Kilmarnock Academy. He afterwards studied at Glasgow School of Art, of which he holds the diploma and the second prize for modelling design. He also gained various studentships and bursaries, including the Glasgow Provincial Committee's Bursary for Art Teachers.

He has taught at Kilmarnock Science and Art School, and at Buckhaven Higher Grade School. He is proving an able and popular teacher, and we wish him every success as our drawing master.

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This is the thirtieth year of our Magazine's existence, and we hope it may prove a memorable one in the history of the School. The prospects are unusually bright. There is a satisfactory improvement in the results of the Leaving Certificate Examinations, 19 Full Leaving Certificates and 46 Intermediate Certificates being gained. Still more satisfactory are the results of the Arts Bursary Competition. Both the former and the present Sixth are greatly to be congratulated on their unusually high 'places. The congratulations of the School are particularly due to Alan McBain, who, though only in the Fifth, was second bursar.

The Annual Athletic Sports will, of course, be dealt. with fully by our Sports Editor on another page. Their success this year was somewhat marred by the bad weather. Friday, 11th September, was cold and windy, and on Saturday it rained all the afternoon, so that the second day of the Sports had to be postponed till the following Wednesday. The result was that we had few visitors, though the attendance of the School was good. We wish to congratulate all the successful competitors and especially W. T. B. Joss, who succeeded in breaking three records.

The Swimming Sports were held on Friday, 30th May. They were carried through with great success before a large gathering of spectators. The Rector's Cup race was won for the second time by J. D. Taggart. C. Saunders was awarded the medal, as J. D. Taggart held it last year.

6f, E8, The Swimming Club has begun again since the holidays.

The office-bearers are the same as last year. Tickets of membership can now be procured from the office-bearers and committee. For the small sum of one shilling, members of the Club are admitted at a reduced rate to the Corporation Baths, and receive instruction in swimming if they want it.

As the Baths are usually rather crowded on Wednesday afternoon, the School's short day has been changed to Thursday, for the convenience of the Swimming Club. We hope that many will take advantage of this to learn this useful accomplishment, and that the Club will have a large membership and a most successful season.

The Literary and Debating Society has resumed its meetings. The President this year is Ian Cumming, who, we feel

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sure, will fill the post excellently. The syllabus is published further on in the Magazine; from this it will be seen what an attractive programme has been arranged. We hope that a large number out of the four highest classes will join the Society.

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With this number we reproduce a photograph of last season's cricket First Eleven. They succeeded in winning seven out of the eleven matches which they played. This success was due to the good all-round play of the whole team, and also to the skilful management of the captain, J. G. Elmslie, and the secretary, N. K. Robson. As several of last year's team have returned, there is every reason to suppose that next summer the honour of the School will be upheld on the cricket field as well as it has been during the past season.

* For the final six weeks or so of last session the Tennis Club flourished in the Duthie Park; but unfortunately the captain was unable to arrange for a tournament to be held. We hope that the Club may have better luck next summer.

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The football season began on 4th October. The First Fifteen made a very good start by beating 1st Queen's. The captain this year is W. T. B. Joss. Several of last year's team have returned, and everything bids fair for a most successful season. We sincerely hope that the captain may lead his team to victory during the coming winter, and that the noble game of Rugby football may long continue to flourish in the Grammar School as it has done for so many years.

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Most of the School Company of the 4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders attended camp this summer at Tain from 19th July to 2nd August. They all enjoyed it very much, and came back more convinced than ever of the joys of a military life. The weather was perfect, scarcely a drop of rain falling during the whole fortnight. D Company now consists almost entirely of present and former pupils of the Grammar School.

As many more will have attained the required age by next spring, we hope that by the next camp the Company will be completely a Grammar School Company, which has always been the desire of Major Thomas Ogilvie (F.P.), our former captain.

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and partly because of the success of the School in the Bursary Competition. The purpose of Lord Roberts's visit was to receive the Freedom of the City from the Town Council, and also to present colours to the 4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders. The School Company paraded with the rest of the Battalion in the afternoon when the colours were presented, and were much impressed by the ceremony and Lord Roberts's address.

O g) 0 Some weeks ago the School was given an opportunity of hearing a lecture by Mr. Leslie Wilson of Australia, at present engaged on a 30,000 mile walk round the world. All who were present were delighted with Mr. Wilson's lecture, which contained much interesting information about jungle and bush life, and several thrilling accounts of his adventures with wild animals and " sundowners." After the lecture Mr. Wilson gave an exhibition of club-swinging, and drew several very clever and amusing sketches. At the close, Mr. Hector, Clerk to the School Board, who presided, called for three " Grammar" cheers for Mr. Wilson, which were heartily given.

0 Eg In the last number of the Magazine there appeared a drawing of the School with the two new wings added. The work was commenced at the beginning of the summer holidays and will go on all through this session. Changes have already been made in the arrangement of the classrooms. Where formerly the two rooms, 13 and 14, stood, there are now three ; and the same is the case with rooms 2 and 3, and also 11 and 12. The noise of the work outside is at present, to say the least, far from helpful to the work inside, and not the least conducive to facility either in imparting or acquiring knowledge. For this reason both the sixth and the fifth have been removed from their former rooms to a position where they will suffer comparatively little inconvenience from the disturbance. The School is badly in need of more classroom accommodation, and will be much the better of the new additions.

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A golf match is being arranged between masters and pupils, and it will take place presently. This match has been of annual occurrence for the last few years. The pupils hope to repeat their victory of last year.

We wish to draw the attention of the School to the two pictures on either side of the Hall door. These pictures were

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purchased by the Rector with some surplus money. They are reproductions, hand painted, of Lady Butler's famous war pictures, " The Roll Call (After Inkermann) ", and " After Balaclava. ".

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On Friday, 17th October, the prizes gained in the Athletic Sports, were presented by Mr. George Mackenzie, ViceChairman of the School Board. The Rector acted as Chairman. Dr. Simpson in his opening address thanked the subscribers to the prize fund, and congratulated the successful competitors. Mr. Mackenzie gave a neat and appropriate address, and presented the prizes. A vote of thanks to Mr. Mackenzie was then given, and three cheers for the Rector.

Eg 0 We cannot lay down our editorial pen without reminding our readers that 23rd October of this year was the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the present School buildings.

In the morning the Rector made special reference to the Jubilee, and to celebrate the occasion the School was granted a half-holiday. We hope that• all " Grammar " boys will do their best to make this year a record one in the annals of the School.

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Bursary Competition Results.

In the order of merit the following names appeared :2. Alan McBain (Classical V.) 6. Arthur M. Barron (Classical VI.) 7. John M. McBain (Class VI.) 9. William D. Simpson (Class VI.) 18. Arthur L. Scott (Class VI.) 29. Ian Cumming (Class V.) 30. James F. Walker (Class V.) 35. Ian McBain (Class V.) 66. Ritchie D. Lyon (Class VI.) 67. George H. McKenzie (Class VI.) 78. Alexander E. Gammie (Class VI.) 83. Frederick Scott (Class V.) 90. Herbert A. Eccles (Class VI.)

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Random Notes.

Why, gentle reader, should a - Literary Editor" be expected to be funny? Ever since the day of our appointment we have cudgelled our brains to discover the reason for this, but in vain. Nevertheless, because it has been customary to fill this column with humorous notes, we tried to follow the worthy example of our predecessors. We found, however, that the funnier we tried to be, the more gloomy, not to say lugubrious, were our notes. For this reason, therefore, we beg our readers not to be too hard on these, our first " Random Notes."

Let us now come to more serious topics.

The Sixth are banished from their ancestral halls! Room I. knows them no more! We used to see them standing in a happy group at the end of the passage, but now we catch sight of them slinking up the stair, as if ashamed to return to the floor of their childhood. " There is weeping and gnashing of teeth."

So unaccustomed are the Sixth to their new abode, that one morning they miscalculated the time needed for coming down to Hall, with the lamentable result that they arrived in a body to find the door shut upon them. Inside the Hall there was consternation ; many were the pale, wan faces that were seen ; many were the whispers, " Where is the Sixth ? " " Can they have been kidnapped? " " What are we to do without the Sixth ? " The first youth of the Fifth, as soon as he got out of Hall, rushed upstairs, five steps at a time, and when he saw the lost ones unharmed, gladly shouted to the enquiring throng, " The Sixth are safe! " and fell down from exhaustion. It will be a long time before the School forgets the dread morning when they feared for the safety of their Sixth : it will be long before the Sixth themselves forget it. " Hinc illae lacrimae."

(N.B.—We do not believe the rumour that three-fourths of the School did not notice the Sixth's absence.)

The Sports passed off very well this year—too well from our point of view, since few incidents fall to be chronicled in this column. We consider it positively unkind of Mr. Summers to make use of a new pistol. The shameless instrument went off every time! It was quite alarming if one was not prepared for it. We suggest that, if the same pistol is to be used next year, a horn be sounded immediately before it is fired, to give the bystanders due warning.

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The fact that the Sports had to be postponed from Saturday to the Wednesday following gave the committee an opportunity, which they were not slow to seize, of engineering an extra half-day off. A certain humorous master informs us that, on each occasion, erery man teas at his post. To the same gentleman's wit we are indebted for the information that the members of this committee, when 'not engaged in supporting their posts by leaning against them, while watching a hardworking individual digging, were resting in the Pavilion. We hope that while they rested they improved their minds by reading classics, but we doubt it. It has been suggested that a society be formed for the Provision of Padded Posts for Overworked Officials.

We must congratulate the gentleman who officiated on the steps at " Tilting the bucket " on - the highly conscientious manner in which he performed his duties. He seemed to take a fiendish delight in seeing that everyone got a shower bath, if not from the bucket, then from the spout of his watering can. His attitude inspired us to the following misquotation of Cowper, He was monarch of all he surveyed, His right there was none to dispute ; And all whom bad marksmanship stayed, Got so wet that tiny soon had to scoot.

When you recover from the effects of this, we shall proceed.

From a paragraph on " Howlers " in " The Penang AngloChinese Scholars' Own," we cull the following:— " Queen Elizabeth was tall and thin, but she was a stout Protestant." " Cave canem—Beware lest I sing." " A vacuum is an empty space with nothing in it. The Pope lives in one." " The Seven Great Powers of Europe are : gravity, electricity, steam, gas, fly-wheels, motors, and Mr. Lloyd George."

Do you know— That some few youths have actually joined the library ?

That many have not?

The meaning of " Quintam fuge? " That the Fifth's room has been compared to a monastic cell ?

That a certain member of the Sixth sports a pink and white silk handkerchief ?

The otiose member of the Fifth?

That a certain section of the Fifth is always in an exhausted condition on Wednesdays?

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His Excellency Sir WILLIAM MACGREGOR* (1865-67), G.C.M.G., C.B., M.D., LL.D., D.Sc., we are reminded by Queensland newspapers just to hand, completed on 4th September the probably unique record of twenty-five years' continuous service as a Governor of British possessions. On 4th September 1888, a picturesque event occurred in Port Moxesby.

Dr. William MacGregor, landing from H.M.S. " Opal," read the Royal Proclamation annexing British New Guinea to the British Empire, and after reading his Commission from Queen Victoria appointing him Administrator, received the oaths of office. The Union Jack was then hoisted and saluted by the " Opal." It was a unique beginning to the development of the Queen's sovereignty over an area of more than 90,000 square miles. How well Dr. MacGregor succeeded in his task is a matter of history. Being without soldiers or policemen, he set to work and made them. For a start he gat a dozen men from Fiji, two of whom were natives, and the others Solomon Islanders. After two years the force consisted entirely of New Guineans, and when the Administrator departed at the end of ten years he left behind a splendid body of armed constabulary, fit to go anywhere and do anything. He found New Guinea a, wild, warlike territory, and unsuited to white occupation; he left it with a well-ordered Government, and with the natives controlled and pacified. After New Guinea came Lagos, and to his medical mind its fever-stricken state must have appealed at• once as a challenge and a defiance. During his term of Governorship he effected remarkable improvements, suppressing the mosquito, and making the capital of the Gold Coast a place fit to live in. He was rewarded by transference to Newfoundland.

Soon after setting foot in that rigorous land he led an expedi-

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tion into the ice regions of Labrador, and in his new territory gained the good will of the people over whom he presided, and the approbation of the Home Government. In 1909 he was appointed to his present post, the Governorship of Queensland.

On behalf of his old School, which he never forgets, we offer Sir William heartiest congratulations on attaining his silver jubilee as an Administrator under the Crown.

Sir JAMES S. MESTON* (1876-80), K.C.S.I., LieutenantGovernor of the United Provinces, and late Financial Secretary to the Government of India, is at present in this country. He has just been giving evidence before the Royal Commission on Indian Finance and Currency at present sitting at the India Office.

At the great International Congress of Medicine held in London in August, several Old Boys took a prominent part.

Sir WILLIAM WATSON CHEYNE,* Bart., (1863-68) held the distinguished position of President of the Section of Surgery, and Sir DAVID FERRIER* (1854-58) was the honoured President of the Section of Neuropathology. Among others who contributed papers were Dr. DAVID NICOLSON* (1856-60), C.B. ; Sir JOHN COLLIE* (1873-76), Professor ROBERT REID (1865-66), and Dr. JOHN E. KESSON (1886-88).

Another recent International Congress had an Old Boy as President. This was the International Road Congress, held in London in June, which was presided over by Sir GEORGE S. Gum* (1860-65), the Chairman of the Road Board.

Sir JAMES REID* (1861-65), Baronet, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., was, in connection with the King's visit in June to Berlin, honoured by the Kaiser with the Order of the Red Eagle (First Class).

He is one of His Majesty the King's Physicians-in-Ordinary.

Sir ALEXANDER OGSTON (1855-58), K.C.V.O., is to be President of the British Medical Association next year, when it is to hold its annual meetings in Aberdeen.

A. G. R. MACKENZIE* (1894) is, along with his father, Mr. A. Marshall Mackenzie, architect of the new London offices of the Commonwealth of Australia, the foundation-stone of which was laid by the King in July.

Dr. HENRY O. FORBES (1863-67), late Director of Museums, Liverpool, as an expert ornithologist, has recently been engaged on behalf of the Peruvian Government in investigating the question of the guano deposits in the islands off the coast of Peru. A long account of his researches recently appeared in The Time..•. He brought back with him a large

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collection of relics of prehistoric Peru, comprising an extensive series of pottery vessels, many articles of clothing, tools of various kinds, musical instruments, weapons, and many osteological specimens. The relics are believed to be those of a pre-Inca race, and to date back at least 2000 years. It may be recalled that another F.P., JAMES COOPER CLARK* .

(1894-96) is deeply versed in Mexican antiquities.

ALEXANDER MACKIE (1870-72), M.A., is the editor of a new educational book entitled " Readings in Modern Scots from Allan Ramsay to the Present Day." Mr. Mackie is a recognised authority on the dialects of Scotland, and particularly on that of Buchan. He is shortly going to America to lecture on his favourite subject.

JOHN N. FARQUHAR (1882-83), M.A., has recently written a book called " The Crown of Hinduism." The volume is declared to be one of the clearest, most orderly, and systematic works yet published on Hinduism.

JoHN M. BULLOCH* (1877-80), M.A., editor of The Graphic, is as indefatigable as ever on the subject of the Gordons. His latest volume is " The Gordon Highlanders : The History of their Origin, together with a Transcript of the first Official Muster."

Professor ALEXANDER R. GORDON* (1884-88), D.Litt., D.D., of the Presbyterian College, Montreal, is the author of a new text-book on "The Poetry and Wisdom of the Old Testament."

Canon WILLIAM LESLIE Low (1856-58), D.D., of Largs, recently celebrated his ministerial jubilee.

ROBERT RICHARDS (1899-1904), M.A., M.B., has been appointed Assistant County Medical Officer and Assistant District Medical Officer for the Lower Ward of Lanarkshire.

WILLIAM LAWSON (1891-92), sub-factor to the Cromartie Estates, Kildary, has been appointed factor for Lord Falmouth, with residence, on his Kent estates.

JOHN LAIRD (1901-03), M.A., at present Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, has been appointed to the chair of Logic and Metaphysics in Queen's University, Belfast. He graduated at Cambridge with first class honours in the Moral Science Tripos.

JOHN HALL RITCHIE* (1903-09), M.A., B.Sc. (Agr.), has received a post in the Indian Agricultural Service. While at. the School he was captain of the Cricket XI., and had a place in the Rugby XV.

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ALEXANDER CHEYNE (1903-09), M.A., who graduated in July last year, has been appointed assistant science and mathematical master in Brechin High School.

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WILLIAM CLARK TODD (1901-04) has been appointed Demonstrator in Dental Mechanics and Prosthetic Dentistry in the University of Melbourne.

CHARLES B. OGILVIE (1902-04) has received an appointment under the Colonial Government in the Public Works Department of the Federated Malay States. He will find plenty of Old Boys out there.

WILLIAM FLETT* (1896-1900), of the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company, Liverpool, has been appointed to the New York office of the Company.

ROBERT W. A. SALmoxii* (1891-99), M.D., M.Ch., has been appointed assistant radiographer at King's College Hospital, London.

Captain KENNETH W. MACKENZIE* (1893-97), M.B., has resigned from the Indian Medical Service.

Rev. JAMES T. SOUTTER* (1898-1902), M.A., has been ordained minister of St. Andrew's Church, Nairobi, East Africa Protectorate.

It will be remembered that he competed in the Olympic Games at Stockholm last year, and contributed an article on the Fifth Olympiad to the Magazine .

Rev. COLIN M. KERR (1892-98), M.A., B.D., Ph.D., ordained assistant to Rev. JAMES ALLAN (1843-44), M.A., D.D., Marnoch, has been appointed parish minister of Kettins, Perthshire.

Rev. JOHN P. BERRY (1862-68), of Ceres, Fife, has been appointed minister of Colliston U.F. Church, near Arbroath.

Rev. JAMES FORREST (1859-60), M.A., D.D., who has been parish minister of Lonmay since 1879, is retiring from active duty. He is to reside in Aberdeen.

ALEXANDER VERNON W. CANTLAY* (1903-10), who has been on the London staff of Messrs. Guthrie and Co., has been appointed to the Singapore office of the firm.

WILLIAM E. GAULD (1882-86) has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

GEORGE A. CARROLL* (1905-1912) has been successful in the recent examination for appointments in the Indian Police Service, and sails for India about the end of October. At School he took a prominent part in athletics.

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ROBERT M. EASTON* (1894-1904), M.A., M.B., senior surgeon in the Royal Albert Hospital, London, under the School of Tropical Medicine, recently gained a commission in the Indian Medical Service.

W. W. JAMESON* (1892-1902), M.A., M.D., has been admitted a member of the Royal College of Physicians (M.R.C.P.).

JOHN SIMPSON OGG* (1904-09) has passed the final examination of the Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

WILLIAM SHEPHERD* (1894-1903), who is in charge of the Lands Valuation Department in the Melrose district, has obtained the Fellowship of the Surveyors' Institution.

HERBERT TOWER SMILEY* (1899-1909) gained this year at

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WILLIAM DUTHIE* (1853-55) of Collynie has been elected President of the Shorthorn Society of Great Britain for the current year.

Dr. GEORGE O. GAULD* (1886-91) acted as captain of Notts County Cricket XI. during the months of July and August.

Has any other Aberdeen man ever been captain of an English County XI. ? The service he rendered to School football and cricket is still green in memory.

JAMES S. G. COLLIE* (1905-10), at the Inter-University Sports, held in Aberdeen in June, established a new Scotch record for the 220 yards race, which he accomplished in 22 seconds.

He also set up an Inter-University record of 101 seconds in the 100 yards race.

HARRY GRAHAM SIMPSON* (1899-1912), son of the Rector, who is at present serving his apprenticeship at the Locomotive Works, Inverurie, has been gazetted Second-Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders (Territorial Force).

ANDREW G. Clow (1896-98) obtained the fourth place in the recent Home and Indian Civil Service examination. He has been studying at St. John's College, Cambridge.

RODER I CK F. THOMSON* (1903-08) recently received an appointment with the Dominion Bank of Canada in Toronto.

C. E. GARLAND* (1898-1902), surveyor of taxes for Shrewsbury and district, was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in June.

WILLIAM P. MILNE* (1897-99), M.A., D.Sc., of Clifton College, Bristol, has been appointed Director of the Mat•he-

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matical Department for Messrs. George Bell and Sons, publishers, London, and also Examiner for the Mathematical Degree, Arts and Science, in the University of St. Andrews.

GEORGE CLARK* (1907-12) has received an appointment in the Canadian Bank of Commerce, San Francisco.

Rev. GEORGE PITTENDRIGH* (1872-76), M.A., Professor of English Literature in the Christian College, Madras, and at present Moderator of the South India United Church, was recently home on short furlough, and returned to India at the end of September.

JAMES MassoN HECTOR* (1889-1900), B.Sc., now holds the post of Plant Pathologist at Reading University.

WILLIAM SINCLAIR* (1882-85), Rangalla Estate, has recently been elected a member of the Ceylon Legislative Council.

ROBERT FLEMING* (1891-98), who is a railroad contractor in Canada, on completing his contract on the Algoma Eastern Railway, started a contract on the Canadian Pacific Railway double• track at Chapleau, Ontario. A letter from him appears on another page.

JOHN C. M. LIGERTWOOD* (1903-06) has passed the final examination of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Manitoba. He is in business in Winnipeg.

ALEXANDER ADAMSON LAING* (1877-79) is one of the latest Life Members of the Club. He went out to Australia in 1885 and is now Sub-Manager of the Royal Bank of Australia Ltd., Melbourne. His brother, ANDREW LAING* (1871-74) is Manager of the Union Bank of Australia, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Captain ARCHER IRVINE FORTESCUE* (1892-97), of the R.A.M.C., is at present• Senior Medical Officer at Benares, United Provinces, India. This city, he tells us, has about 220,000 inhabitants and is the most sacred city in India in the eyes of the Hindus. Owing to the large number of pilgrims who flock in from all parts, they are constantly having outbreaks of plague and cholera, but as there is now a good pipe water supply these diseases never spread far. Benares is a very interesting place to anyone who cares about Indian history and arch.wology. There is a huge brick " Tope " or Buddhist memorial pyramid, dating from 200 s.c. The river front is very fine, as the north bank of the Ganges is lined with a succession of palaces and temples. The excursion down the river in a boat is " the thing to do " there.

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ALEXANDER KIRKLAND ROBB (1881-89), Major, The Durham Light Infantry, is attached to the General Staff of the Army, for duty as Adjutant, Officers' Training Corps, University of Durham, and at a meeting of the Senate he was appointed lecturer in Military Education at the University. Major Robb received the honorary degree of M.A. at the recent June Week Convocation of the University.

DOUGLAS GEORGE RoBB* (1899-1902), M.A. (Aberd.), B.Sc. (Edin.), completed three years on the Engineering Staff at the Naval Dock Works at Rosyth, and is at present Assistant Civil Engineer with the Sinai Mining Company, Ltd., in the construction of a short line of narrow gauge railway and a deep water screw pile pier at Abu-Zenima on the Gulf of Suez. He was recently elected an Associate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London.

Captain EDWIN S. MACLEOD* (1881-89) has recently received an appointment to the Surveying Staff of the Board of Trade, and is now nautical surveyor at the port of North Shields.

JOHN Low DICKIE (1881), M.B., is the author of a small farce entitled " A Deal in Mayfair " which has just been produced at the Court Theatre, London.

ROBERT S. TROUP* (1888-91), of the Indian Forestry Service, who is at present home on furlough, has been appointed temporarily Assistant to the Professor of Forestry at Oxford University.

ARTHUR J. MILNE* (1884-96), M.B., who, as a member of the Colonial Medical Service, has been stationed for the past eight years at Mauritius, has received an important appointment under the new Sanitation Department in Ceylon.

W. M. LITTLEJOHN* (1901-02) has been appointed Assistant Engineer at the Harbour of Refuge Works, Peterhead.

FRANCIS RENTON BARRY* (1896-1902), B.A., scholar of Oriel College, Oxford, has just been elected a Fellow of that College. He was placed in the first class by the Classical Moderators in 1910 and obtained a first class in the Final Classical School in 1912.

He also gained the Passmore Edwards Scholarship in 1912, a Liddon Studentship in 1912, and the Junior Greek Testament Prize this year.

BENJAMIN T. SAUNDERS* (1896-1908), M.B., has been appointed Junior Medical Officer of the City Hospital, Aberdeen.

JAMES FRATER TAYLOR (1886-87) has recently been appointed President of the well-known Lake Superior Corporation, He is also President of the Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

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Algoma Steel Corporation Ltd., and about two dozen other companies. His brother, ALEXANDER TAYLOR* (1890-93), a former member of the F.P. Club Executive, is Assistant Secretary of the Lake Superior Corporation.

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THOMAS IRVINE ROWELL* (1854-55), M.D., C.M.G., has sent to the Magazine a letter, printed on another page, which we are sure will be found most interesting. He states that he passed from school to King's College, but he modestly omits to mention that he did this as First Bursar. He entered the Colonial Service as principal civil medical officer of the Straits Settlements in 1877 and retired in 1891. He was decorated for general good service.

At the Summer Graduation of Aberdeen University degrees were conferred on the following Old Boys:— Doctor of Laws (LL.D.)— Sir JAMES S. MESTON* (1876-80), K.C.S.I. Master of Arts (M.A.)— SIDNEY KNIGHT FINLAYSON (1896-1909).

ROBERT JOHN ANDERSON* (1903-09).

JAMES S. B. FORBES* (1903-10).

DOUGLAS M. M. FRASER* (1898-1910).

ROBERT MACKAY LEDINGHAM* (1897-1909).

DOUGLAS M. W. LEITH* (1903-10).

DONALD MACDONALD (1908-09).

WILLIAM CALTHORPE MACKINNON* (1906-10).

HARRY EDWARD SH-AND* (1906-09).

IAN STEWART THOMSON* (1903-09).

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Diploma in Public Health (D.P.H.)— ALEXANDER M. BROWN* (1894-1904), M.A., M.B. ROBERT RICHARDS (1899-1904), M.A., M.B. •

Among Old Boys at present home on holiday are C. W. BEATTIE* (1888- ?), from Ceylon : R. D. KEITH,* M.D. (1892-95), from Singapore; WM. H. G. HALLY* (1889-96) from Assam; JAMES S. SAUNDERS* (1893-1900), and R. F. O. SAuxtlEns* (1893-1903), from the Malay States.

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W. S. CATTo (1895-1902), M.A., has been appointed to a mastership in George Watson's College, Edinburgh.

At the entrance examination, New College, Edinburgh, K. FINLAYSON (1896-1909), M.A., gained a bursary of £35. His marks in English (93.3 per cent.) were higher than those of any other entrant in the three Colleges—Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen.

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Old Boys will be deeply gratified to learn that a magnificent enlarged portrait of Mr. Samuel Pope has lately been presented to the School and now hangs in the Hall. It is the work of ROBERT M. MORGAN* (1897-98).

They will also be glad to hear that a former master of many of them, Mr. A. V. Lothian, Glasgow, has recently been elected an Honorary Member of the F.P. Club. He is most enthusiastic for its welfare.

It is with much pleasure that we reproduce a composite group of four views of a railway constructed in Burma by two F.P.'S-ALEXANDER G. FRASER* (1892-96) and JAMES H. FRASER* (1892-1900).

The railway runs to stone quarries opened by these two brothers in the Bassein District, some twenty miles by water from Bassein. They were approached early in 1909 by a gentleman who had prospected the ground and found good stone there, and in November of the same year the construction of the railway was commenced. The line is 2i miles long, and the last half is through very hilly country. The biggest cutting is 30 feet high and 800 feet long. The line is laid through practically virgin country, and they say it is strange to hear an engine whistling right in the heart of the jungle.

We sincerely trust that other Old Boys will send photos illustrating any interesting work they may have been engaged on.

Such will always be welcome for reproduction in the Magazine.

OBITUARY. THOMAS FRANCIS JAMIESON (1838-43), F.G.S., LL.D., died at Avonbank, Ellon, on 24th May, aged 84. After leaving the School, he studied at Marischal College for three years, but did not graduate. He early devoted his attention to agriculture, and as a result was in 1862 appointed Fordyce Lecturer in Agriculture in Aberdeen University.

This position he held for twelve years.

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Many enthusiastic student of geology and meteorology. articles on the geology of Aberdeenshire and the Highlands tame from his pen.

Rev. WILLIAM MILNE (1842-47), M.A., died at Torquay He was successively minister in on 8th July, aged 84.

Auchterarder, Perthshire ; in Wellesley Square Free Church, Calcutta ; and in the Presbyterian Church, Montreux, There he celebrated his ministerial jubilee in Switzerland.

1908, and at the same time retired.

Rev. WILLIAM RAITT (1848-54), Ph.D., died at New Lodge, Billericay, Essex, on 28th August, in his 75th year.

He was a, minister of the English Presbyterian Church.

Rev. As/Gus GuNsT (1848-49), M.A., D.D., died at the Manse, Dollar, on 26th June, aged 79. After graduating at King's College he became assistant minister at Arbroath, and For forty years he was in 1861 was presented to Dollar.

Chairman of the Governors of Dollar Academy. He retired from active duty on celebrating his ministerial jubilee in 1911.

Rev. ROBERT GIBB FORREST (1851-54), M.A., D.D., died at Edinburgh on 19th August, aged 75. He graduated at King's College in 1858 and was appointed assistant minister of Lonmay in 1863. Two years later he was called to New Pitsligo, then he was elected to Macduff, and in 1872 he became first minister of West Coates Parish Church, Edinburgh.

Rev. WILLIAM PROFEIT (1852-54), M.A., died at Aberdeen on 1st September. He graduated at King's College in 1859 and thereafter studied at the Free Church College, Aberdeen.

He later joined the English Presbyterian Church and became minister at Jarrow-on-Tyne. In 1885 he was called to the Free Church of Strathdon and Glenbuchat, and he remained there until his retirement three years ago. He was the author of a work, " The Creation of Matter," which has been translated into several languages.

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ALEXANDER KEMLO (1854-55), M.A., died at Butterworth, After Transkei, South Africa, on 21st August, aged 74. graduating in Arts in 1860 and serving a law apprenticeship, he became a member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen in 1869. Leaving Aberdeen in 1891 he went to South Africa, and began legal practice at Butterworth in 1892. Latterly his time was entirely occupied with the work of the Transkeian Territories General Council.

Rev. GEORGE ROSE (1856-61) died suddenly in Aberdeen on 19th June. He was for twenty-five years minister of Buchlyvie Free Church, Stirling.

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Rev. DUNCAN GEORGE MEARNS (1859-61), M.A., B.D., of Disblair and South Kinmundy, died at Aberdeen on 22nd October, aged 67. He was ordained minister of the parish of Oyne, Aberdeenshire, in 1874, and remained there until his retirement in 1896.

Major-General Sir ALEXANDER JOHN FORSYTH REID* (1859-61), K.C.B., M.A., LL.D., died at Aboyne on 4th September, aged 67. After graduating in Arts at Aberdeen University in 1865 he joined the 109th Regiment in 1867, and was transferred in 1871 to the Bengal Staff Corps. He took part in the Afghan War of 1878-80 and was present at the forcing of the Peiwar Kota, during which he was dangerously wounded. He also took part in the Zaimusht Expedition and in the assault of Zawa, and he was mentioned in despatches.

In 1881 he was a member of the Southern Afghanistan Field Force, and he acted as Assistant Road Commissioner on the Quetta-Kandahar line. He obtained the medal with clasp and the brevet of major. In the Hazara Expedition of 1888 he was again mentioned in despatches and obtained the medal and clasp, being granted the brevet of lieutenant-colonel. He was mentioned in despatches again in 1891 for his conduct in the Miranzai (first and second) Expeditions, gaining the clasp, and he was awarded the medal with clasp for his share in the operations of the Relief Force to Chitral in 1895. In 1897-8 he was employed in the North-West Frontier of India Campaign, being in command of the Malakand Relief Column.

He was present at the relief of Chakdara, Malakand, and Utman Khel. During the campaign he was three times mentioned in despatches, and he afterwards received two In 1900-1, as Brigadier-General, he. clasps and a C.B. commanded the 3rd Infantry Brigade in the China Expeditionary Force. Once more he was mentioned in despatches and obtained the medal. He was also created a K.C.B. Major-General Reid was deservedly one of the Honorary VicePresidents of the F.P. Club. In the annals of the School he will live in honoured memory. A characterization of him, by Professor WILLIAM L. DAVIDSON, appears on another page.

WILLIAM GRAHAME WALKER (1860-64) died at Aberdeen on 30th July, aged 67. He was Principal of the well-known " Walker's Academy," 2 West Craibstone Street, Aberdeen.

ALEXANDER LEITH HALKETT DAWSON (1863-67), M.A., LL.B., died at Melbourne, Australia, on 22nd May, aged 63.

After graduating M.A. (with Honours) in 1871 and acting as assistant to Professor Alexander Bain in 1871-72, he was for five years editor of the Leeds Daily Sews. His health failing, he went out to Australia, and in 1880 became first Rector of

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Timaru High School, New Zealand. Ten years later he was appointed Professor of English and Lecturer on Political Economy in the University of Otago. In 1892 he was called to the Bar at Melbourne, and there he practised as a barrister and solicitor. He was also a director of mining companies, a dairy farmer, and a breeder of stock.

WALTER COWAN (1863-65) died at Glasgow on 24th May, aged 63. After studying at Aberdeen University and later in France and Germany, he started business in the iron and steel trade in Glasgow in 1872. Two years afterwards he entered the London office cf Messrs Krupp, and remained there until 1890, when he returned to Glasgow and started business on his own account.

JOHN ALEXANDER ROBSON ELMSLIE (1863-67), died at Cembelego, New South Wales, on 16th September.

GEORGE E. G. WATKINS (1865-67) died at Aberdeen on 24th August, aged 59.

He served his apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer with Messrs. Dalgety Brothers, Aberdeen, and continued with the same firm as foreman for twenty-seven years.

Thereafter he was for seven years Superintendent Engineer at the Cults Pumping Station of the Aberdeen Town Council, and latterly lived in retirement.

CHARLES LAING (1871-73), of Derncleugh, Cults, died at Mossville, Dolosbage, Ceylon, on 9th July. He went to Ceylon about thirty years ago and was manager of his father's tea estates until 1893, when he became owner of them. He came home and settled at Cults some years ago.

HYND HARPER (1872-74), who went to sea after serving his apprenticeship as an engineer with Messrs. McKinnon and Co., Aberdeen, was drowned in shipwreck on the North Stacks, off Holyhead, on 24th May. He was Chief Engineer of the s.s. " Maiorese," trading between Liverpool and the Mediterranean, and died like a hero at the post of duty.

DANIEL MALCOLM SMITH (1874-79), M.A., M.D., died at Sunninghill, Banchory, on 3rd June, aged 49. He was formerly in medical practice in Liscard, Cheshire, but retired some years ago on account of ill-health.

• GEORGE BOTHWELL DOUGLAS MACDONALD (1877-82), M.B., C.M., died at Orange, New South Wales, on 7th September, aged 47. He graduated in Medicine at Aberdeen in 1887, and practised in Ichang, China ; Uniondale, Cape Colony ; and in various places in Australia. He was a brother of MajorGeneral Sir J. RONALD L. MACDONALD* (1873-76).

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EDWIN FLORENCE (1881-85) died at Calcutta on 11th July.

He went to India in 1894, and was manager of a tea estate in North Sylhet.

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JAMES BROWN* (1884-91) died suddenly at Lumbo, St. Andrews, on 9th July. He was until recently manager of the Caledonian Station Hotel, Edinburgh.

JOHN STEWART MILNE (1887-88), M.A., M.D., died at Hartlepool on 20th October, aged 42. For fifteen years he had been in practice as a doctor in Hartlepool. He took a keen interest in the history of medicine, the subject of his thesis for the M.D. degree, which he received with Highest Honours, being " The Surgical Armamentarium of the Greeks and Romans."

Rev. WILLIAM MORTIMER M`DONALD (1889-91), M.A., died at Foveran on 7th July, aged 39. He graduated in Arts (with Honours) in 1895 and after a distinguished course at the Free Church College, Aberdeen, was appointed assistant in Buckie. In 1903 he was ordained to Foveran U.F. Church.

ARCHIBALD JAMES RICHARDS* (1895-1901) died at Aberdeen on 26th July, aged 29. He was much interested in the preparation of the Record of Old Boys, and frequently sent information to the editor.

CHARLES WILLIAM FORBES GRAY (1896-97), M.B., Ch.B., died at Lovett, Orange Free State, cn 11th October, aged 34.

Some time after graduating in Medicine, he went to Northern Rhodesia in the service of the Government. Latterly he was in private practice in the Orange River Colony.

JAMES GRANT GREIG (1903-07) died at Aberdeen on 15th July, aged 20. His death was the result of an accident which occurred while he was motor cycling.

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MARRIAGES. COOPER (1867-70).—At the Palace Hotel, Aberdeen, on 11th August, FRANK COOPER,* R.D., R.N.R., to Jeannie Begg, elder daughter of the late Daniel Levie, and of Mrs. Levie, 46 Duthie Terrace, Aberdeen.

FIDDES (1881-86).—At All Saints' Church Forest Gate, London, on 7th June, A. M. FIDDES, M.B., C.M., Rutland House, Upton Park, to Florence Elizabeth, eldest daughter of T. L. Inman, Forest Gate, London.

WIGGLESWORTH (1881-82).—At the Church of Saint John the Evangelist, Edinburgh, on 6th September, EDWIN WIGGLESWORTH, London, to Minnie, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chapman, Gattonside, Abbotsford Crescent, Edinburgh.

STUART (1882-84).—At Christ Church, Guildford, on 27th May, CHARLES EDWARD STUART, son of the late Captain Stuart, and of

Mrs. Stuart, of Kimberley, Banchory, to Ada Christine, daughter of Sir William Goodman of Claradel, Guildford.

LAING (1882-87).—At Rosemount Parish Church, on 9th September, ANDREW Ross LAING,* M.D., to Amy Hackney, only daughter of S. Tawse, 2 Argyll Place, Aberdeen.

STRACHAN (1883-92).-At Bristol, on 18th August, ALEXANDER L. STRACHAN, C.A., National Insurance Audit Department, Belfast, to Edith Margaret, youngest daughter of W. J. Canning, Wellington, New Zealand.

Ross (1884-88).—At the Imperial Hotel, on 21st May, DAVID M. Ross, to Margaret Bennet, third daughter of the late Alexander Mowat, shipmaster, and of Mrs. Mowat, Ferndale, 30 Cedar Place, Aberdeen.

OGST0N (1885).—At the Roxburgh Hotel, Edinburgh, on 19th September, ALEXANDER OGST0N,* M.A., M.B., C.M., to Elizabeth Matthewson, younger daughter of Andrew Tod, 85 Great King Street, Edinburgh.

Crookside, Lochwinnoch, on 26th GARDEN (1885-91).—At August, FRANK A. GARDEN, to Mary Stewart, daughter of Henry Hamilton, manufacturer, Lochwinnoch.

KEssoN (1886-88).—At Rosemount Parish Church, Aberdeen, on 28th June, J. ELRICK KESSON , M.D., D.P.H., Keith, to Sarah Moncur, youngest daughter of William Wyllie, seedsman, Aberdeen.

GARDNER (1887-90).—At Newhills, on 10th October, ALEXANDER E. P. GARDNER, solicitor, Stonehaven, to Janet Burnett, daughter of Rev. J. Smith, LL.D., minister of the Parish of Newhills.

PROCTOR (1888).-At 151 Forest Avenue, Aberdeen, on 12th July, JOHN M. PROCTOR, solicitor, to Rosa Dunella, younger daughter of Duncan Macdonald, commission agent, Aberdeen, BOWIE (1890-97).—At the Imperial Hotel, Aberdeen, on 5th July, WILLIAM CHALMERS BOWIE, M.A., to Lillias, daughter of the late William Catto, contractor, and of Mrs. Catto, 11 King's Crescent, Aberdeen.

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ANous (1890-92).—At Faerwood, Dollar, on 24th August, JOHN WILLIAM ANGUS, shipmaster, second son of John R. Angus, Kincorth, Aberdeen, to Mary, only child of the late James Cromarty, South Cara, South Ronaldshay, Orkney.

FALCONER (1891-1900).—At the South United Free Church, Aberdeen, on 2nd July, DOUGLAS FALCONER,* son of William Falconer, Aberdeen, to Lillias Gordon, daughter of R. Gordon Nicol, Aberdeen.

TAIT (1892-94).—At the Peck Church, Hong-Kong, on 23rd September. EDWIN GARLAND TAIT, manager, Aachen-Munich Insurance Co., Shanghai, elder son of Edwin Tait, F.F.A., North British and Mercantile Insurance Co., Aberdeen, to Elizabeth Ritchie Lawrence, youngest daughter of the late George Maitland, and Mrs. Maitland, 483 Union Street, Aberdeen.

MILNE (1892- ?).—At the Parish Church, Ellon, on 2nd July, Captain THOMAS MILNE, 55th Cocke's Rifles, Frontier Force, to Katherine Elizabeth, second daughter of Thomas Garland, Ardlethen, Ellon.

MILNE (1893- ?).—At the Grand Hotel, Aberdeen, on 6th September, ALFRED EDWARD MILNE,* solicitor, Aberdeen, to Jean Isabella, eldest daughter of William Guthrie, Hope Farm, Bucksburn, and Tilly-four, Whitehouse.

GREEN (1894-97).—At the Grand Hotel, Aberdeen, on 13th August, Rev. PATRICK J. GREEN, M.A. (Oxon.), Dall Memorial Church, Bedlington, Northumberland, to Elsie, daughter of George Stoddart, Aryburn, Dyce, Aberdeenshire.

DRUMMOND (1894-98).—At Queen's Cross U.F. Church, on 5th July, HowARD GRAHAM DRUMMOND,* merchant, to Alice Maude, youngest daughter of the late Hugh Mackenzie, N. of S. Bank, and Mrs. Mackenzie, 80 Beaconsfield Place, Aberdeen.

DUNN (1894-98).--At St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Aberdeen, on 6th September, JOHN P. DUNN* (of Henry Hutcheon, Ltd.), to Matilda, youngest (laughter of George Mason (J. Mason & Son), 29 Stanley Street, Aberdeen.

RUSSELL (1894-1901).—At Knox Presbyterian Church, St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, on 13th September, Rev. G. STANLEY RUSSELL,* M.A., of St. Anne's-on-the-Sea, to Ethel Macdonald, only daughter of D. M. Tait, banker, St. Thomas.

WATSON (1895-96).—At New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, on 10th June, ROBERT GEORGE WATSON,* to Eliza, second daughter of James Taggart, Ashley Lodge, Aberdeen.

HAY (1895-1902).—At the Imperial Hotel, Aberdeen, on 1st July, GEORGE EDWARD HAY,* M.A., Aberdeen, to Jean Duncan, second daughter of James Leatham, printer and publisher, Cottingham, Yorks, and of Mrs. Leatham, 68 Schoolhill, Aberdeen.

HUTCHISON (1896-1904).—At the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Aberdeen, on 17th June, ALEXANDER BURNETT HUTCHISON,* eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hutchison, 70 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen, to Wilhemina, youngest daughter of the late John Lewis, and Mrs. Lewis, Elderslie, Ruthrieston, Aberdeen.

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WILSON (1896-1903).—At St. Peter's, Regent Square, London, on 17th September, THOMAS JAMES WILSON,* C.A., of Westcliff-onSea., third son of the late Thomas Wilson, of Keith, Banffshire, and of Mrs. Wilson, Aberdeen, to Ethel, second daughter of the late William Igglesden, and of Mrs. Igglesden, Ashford, Kent.

FLETT (1895-1900).-At St. Bride's Church, Liverpool, on 30th July, WILLIAM FLETT,* elder son of John K. Flett, 194 George Street, Aberdeen, to Evelyn Grace, youngest daughter of Mrs. Joseph H. Bouchier, 23 Jolliffe Street, Princess Park, Liverpool.

RICHARDS (1896-99).--At the Palace Hotel, Aberdeen, on 4th October, JOHN CARMICHAEL RICHARDS,* solicitor, Fraserburgh, to Elizabeth Kyd, youngest daughter of John Mowat, Hazlehead, and 349 Holburn Street, Aberdeen.

PETERKIN (1897).—At Nest House Chapel, Daunby, on 7th July, Dr. FRANK PETERKIN, of 68 Beaconsfield Place, Aberdeen, to Mary Agnes. daughter of Dr. William Coombe Burns, of Daunby House, Orkney.

CRUICKSHANK (1897-98).—At the Woodbank Hotel, Dumfries, on 8th July, JOHN W. CRUICKSHANK,* farmer, Logie Newton, Rothienorman, to Janet Isabella, daughter of the late Robert Caldow, Rigghead, and Mrs. Caldow, Stanley Villa, Dumfries.

HUGGAN (1898-1900).—At St. James' Presbyterian Church, Alnwick, Northumberland, on 17th September, JOHN A. HUGGAN,* jun., Kenfield, Aberdeen, to Eleanor Lothian, elder daughter of W. Ainsley, Alnwick.

PATON (1898-1904).—At St. Mary's Chapel, Aberdeen, on 30th August, Rev. ROBERT N. PATON,* B.D., New Byth, to Catherine, second daughter of George H. Gray, gamekeeper, Pitcaple.

MArriiEWs (1899-1900).—At Regent Square Presbyterian Church, London, on 21st August, WILLIAM MATTHEWS, art master, Polytechnic School of Art, London, son of William Matthews, Kirkton, Tough, to Ellen Mary, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robertson, Caledonian Christian Club, 11 Endsleigh Gardens, London.

HARPER (1901-05).—At Greyfriars. Parish Church, on 13th June, ALFRED HARPER, to Margaret Coutts, younger daughter of John M. Smith, 74 Broomhill Road, Aberdeen.

OGILVIE (1902-03).—At the Palace Hotel, Aberdeen, on 2nd August, IAN OGILVIE, M.B., Ch.B., Warrington, to Helen MacLeod, daughter of Mr. John Johnstone, journalist, Aberdeen.

WALKER (1902-08).--At Aberdeen, on 6th September, WILLIAM G. WALKER. M.A., to Mary Mollison, daughter of George Mackenzie, Newmill, Keith.

GOLDEN WEDDING.

(1848-51).—On 15th September, 1863, at Aberdeen, by the Rev. Charles Gibbon, D.D., father of the bridegroom, WILLIAM DUFF GIBBON,* planter, Ceylon, to Katherine, daughter of Andrew Murray, of Allathan, Aberdeenshire.

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Major=General Sir Alexander J. F. Reid, K.C.B., LL.D. It is not a biography of General Reid that is here desired, but simply a brief characterization of him by one who knew him well and esteemed him In outward appearance, he was a striking personality— tall, powerfully-built, commanding, every inch a General.

No stranger could pass him on the street without specially looking at him ; and so much did his fine appearance impress Aberdonians that there was .a deep universal regret when, at the beginning of his last illness, he was unable to take his place in the various ceremonies connected with Lord Roberts's recent visit to Aberdeen. Everyone was looking forward with pride to his stalwart presence, which would lend a special distinction to the occasion.

His outward appearance was an index to his inward nature. If he commanded others, he first commanded himself. In the highest• sense of the term, he was a man of sterling worth—upright in his character, high in his ideals, steadfast in his friendships. He hated cant in every department of life, and he did not fail to say so. Strong in his convictions, in his likes and dislikes, he expressed himself precisely as he felt.

There was no mistaking what he meant. His honesty was unqualified. No sinister end, however much it might have served his own interests, was allowed a moment's consideration. He was above hypocrisy, and treated it with scorn.

I hardly ever knew a man who was so unbending in his fidelity to what he felt to be honourable and right.

He was essentially a man of energy. When he retired from the Service he grieved that there was now seemingly nothing for him to do.

But a sphere of action opened up to him presently, and he threw himself into the discharge of its duties with full enthusiasm. Nat only the Territorial Force, but the Boys' Brigade and the Boy Scouts found in him a warm support ; and many a young man, bent on patriotic objects, benefited by his wise and sympathetic counsel. His patriotism was unbounded. His large experience of foreign lands, and the fame he achieved in connexion with them, never for a moment dulled his appreciation of his own native land.

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Britain and its greatness, King and country, stood first in his affection ; and realizing that " love of kin is love of kind," he turned evermore in heart and thought to that part of Scotland which gave him birth and nurture. His own beloved Auchindoir was to him the choicest corner of Scotland, equalled only by Glenbuchat, the native place of his ancestors, in the churchyard of which, in a secluded nook, under a tall and graceful lime-tree, at the west end of the Church, he lies buried, immediately adjoining the grave of his father and mother.

Everything that he did was done thoroughly. " Thorough " was, throughout his life, his motto ; and he had no sympathy with the half-hearted service and the scamping of work which is so common at the present time. This passion for thoroughness was in him hereditary ; and he had, among others, the example of his near and venerated relative, the old minister of Belhelvie—the Reverend Dr. Forsyth—who won lasting fame as the inventor of the percussion lock, which brought about a radical change in the mode of European warfare. His brief biography of that distinguished divine, published a few years ago, is an excellent example of the care and accuracy that in everything characterized him.

His abounding energy found an outlet, when he was " off duty," in long walks and in mountain-climbing. He delighted in these simple modes of physical exercise; and the friends who were privileged to join him felt that he was at his best in these healthy and invigorating excursions.

It would be unpardonable to omit that he was a man of a genuine, yet unobtrusive, religious nature ; and no characterization of him would be complete which did not allude to his intense devotion to the Church of Scotland (which, in the literal sense, was " the Church of his fathers "), whose eldership, had he lived a few weeks longer, he would have adorned.

While General Reid will live in the history of the country as a military hero, and in Aberdeenshire as a native of whom the county may justly be proud, he will live in the hearts of his friends as a stimulating example of integrity and honour and an inspiration to self-sacrifice and unremitting discharge of duty.

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School and Medical Reminiscences.

A Letter from Dr. T. Irvine Rowell, C.M.G. ([854'55)Norman House, Stanated, Essex, 6th October, 1913.

Dear Sir, You have kindly asked me, as an old " Grammarian, — to give you for next issue of the Old Boys' magazine a sketch of my early school days, and after career, in the hopes they may be of some interest to your readers, and although I fear these hopes are vain, and I dislike the personal element it entails, I have ventured to consent in the faith that your expectations may be in some little measure realized.

I began education first at Dr. Ferguson's West• End Academy, going on later to Dr. Tulloch's Bellevue Establishment, and finally, at the age of fifteen, entered the Fifth Class of the Grammar School under the rectorship of William Duguid Geddes.

At the trial version that year I passed out 24th, but I may add, without apology, that the class was a large one (92), and that in it were some doughty opponents such as William Lang Baxter, Alexander Cruickshank, John Anderson, Robert Slessor, Henry Clark, and James Cruickshank Geddes, brother of the rector—names indeed to conjure by, and lads of high promise and attainments.

In the Fourth Class, opposite, I can now see the faces of John Wallace, James Westland, Robert Troup, Simon McPhail, James F. Beattie, Harvey Hall, and many another.

In it were two characters whose memories have clung.

One was " Stumpy Wilson," a mass of potential and latent• energy who, on the opening of the Class door in the mornings by the janitor, used to rush in to his place with the force of a mighty hurricane, sweeping boys and everything before him, his wooden leg on the ligneous floor coming down with a thud which shook and resounded through the room, spreading its echoes far and wide, as if in pride of its owner, in emulation of his vigour, and with the strong resolve that his presence should not be mistaken. The other was " Deevil Reid," who, always clad in solemn black, as I remember him, was invariably up to tricks and pranks, and with his coal black hair, and a dark face deeply pitted with smallpox, ably personated His Satanic Majesty himself.

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tions. Geddes frequently, when in a discursive mood, used to plump down suddenly, and ask a question quite irrelevant to the day's routine, and on this occasion Horne was asked, after being called up, to name Horace's favourite wine.

Horne thought, scratched his head, looked up and replied, " Mountain dew, sir! " The naturally solemn lines of the rector's face were seen to relax, he broke into a smile, and then into a fit of unconstrained laughter, accompanied by roars from the Class. Truly an historical event in Aberdeen Grammar School annals!

At the Competition that year at King's College, I entered the list, passing out midway with a £14 bursary which I rejected, thinking I was rather young to enter College, and hoping to do better next year. So I returned to the Grammar School, but alas! just then Geddes was appointed to the Greek chair at King's, and the Class came under the tuition of a very different type of teacher, to wit, " Paddy " Evans. Able scholar he was no doubt, but utterly incapable of ruling an Aberdeen boy squadron. He was frequently barricaded out from his class, and cinders and other useful pocket missiles were sent freely flying over his head, as he walked up and down between the two forms. The room became a chaos, learning an impossibility, and it was a happy day for the dear old School when he was obliged to say good-bye to it.

Recognizing the hopelessness of things, I followed my friend James Westland to Chanonry, where I pursued my classics under Alexander Martin, a sound and able teacher and from there, again entered the Competition and passed to King's College. Here I would wish to say a word, and pay a tribute in appreciation of William Duguid Geddes as a teacher and profound scholar. Without any seeming effort, he at once commanded the awe, reverence, and respect of his pupils. In his class, silence reigned supreme. His earnest face, his burning enthusiasm, the Homeric flash and fire of his eye, his zeal to impart, his intense and passionate love for his classical heroes with his glowing description of their deeds of daring and their many wanderings, could not fail to rivet the attention and impress themselves on the youthful and receptive mind, and he was thus able, unconsciously, to infuse, and breathe into it, something of his own genius and spirit, his high ideals and lofty inspirations; and it would be hard to gauge the depth of influence which his fervour and teaching may or may not have had, in shaping the careers of many of those lads to whom fell the privilege of sitting under him as pupils. His impressive face was one not easily forgotten. and small wonder was it that he reached

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the Olympic heights he did in later years. As a teacher, I have never met his equal.

After two years of Arts Classes, I rather hurriedly decided Medicine, and entered the then St. Paul Street study to Medical School, but the fusion of the two Colleges taking place soon thereafter, our classes were transferred to Marischal College, where in due course I graduated in Surgery and Medicine. Thus equipped, I proceeded to Edinburgh to pursue my studies under the late Dr. Matthews Duncan at the Extra-mural School, and had the satisfaction at the end of the session of carrying off both his medals, which, as Aberdeen versus Edinburgh, gave me a pardonable pride.

From there I went to London to visit for a time the hospitals, and thence on to Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Prague, where I learned much to stand me in good stead in the coming days.

On returning home I resolved to practise in London, but had hardly settled down to work, when an advertisement for an assistant to a doctor in the East on exceptional terms caught my eye in the Lancet, and with some sixty other applicants, I forwarded my testimonials. I proved successful, and within a week was off in the P. and O. s.s. " Ripon," bound for Singapore with only a very dreamy and hazy idea of its location on the map, but hoping all would be well in this best of worlds.

I arrived there in early 1866 at rather an eventful crisis of its history. At that time Singapore, as also Penang, Malacca, and Prince of Wales Island, was ruled from Bengal. A feeling of dissatisfaction on the part of the European traders and merchants on the ground that their interests were not receiving their due attention from the Indian Government, and a belief that trade was consequently on the decline, gave rise to a meeting amongst them, and a strong and powerful petition was sent home to the British Government, with the result that the various settlements were converted into a Crown Colony in the following year, 1867, under the name of the Straits Settlements, from which time they forged ahead, and an almost unbroken tide of prosperity has attended the transfer.

Among the many strange sights to attract the eye of a griffin fresh from home, two struck me, one being the native Sepoy troops, and the other the gangs of convicts to be seen at work on the roads and elsewhere. The provinces being then, as I have stated, ruled from Bengal were garrisoned

by Madras Sepoy regiments officered, of course, by Europeans.

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tioned men, who as they might be seen marching along the roads in their uniform of scarlet tunics, dark trouserings, head gear and trappings, formed a gay and pleasing picture against the ever-green foliage of the beautiful wayside trees.

Many of them, I have no doubt, had fought against us in the Mutiny, but their behaviour was most excellent. Singapore and Penang were then also penal settlements for India, in consequence of which there was in their midst a considerable number of most notorious and dangerous criminals coming both from India and Burmah. Many of these were desperate characters, thugs, dacoits, multiple murderers, thieves and robbers all, with a fair amount of ticket-of-leave and timeOne expired convicts who had to be carefully watched. naturally would have supposed that their presence in any community would have been fraught with danger, instead of which, under a wise and fearless Government, they were made to be at once a valuable asset, and proved a blessing in disguise. They were firmly, never cruelly treated, but they were made to work, and work hard. Their free labour was, under skilled supervision, utilized in the building of their own jails, and all the important public erections such as town hall, Government offices, etc., and in Singapore itself a cathedral of which any city might be proud. To build these they had to dig the granite from a quarry in an adjacent island, hew it, and chisel it into suitable blocks and convey it to the spot of erection, making at the same time, as the Israelites of old, their own bricks and mortar. By them also were constructed all the original roads throughout the island, as well as maintained and kept in constant repair. They worked in small bodies, an armed warder over each gang. These buildings still stand and will yet for many a long day endure, and may be pointed to as a lasting memorial of their thorough, solid and substantial workmanship, and a striking proof of the use prisoners can be put to when directed into the proper channel. Si eorum laborum operumque monumentum guaeris, eireumspiee may well be applied to them. Nor was their work confined to buildings alone, but any other large operation, such as land reclamation, bridge erection, was carried through by them. The weak and physically unfit were taught carpentering, table and chair-making, and basket manufacture from wicker-work, and other trades of a useful nature. In this way were these men made to expiate their crimes by the hard sweat of their brows, and surely there never was, nor could be devised a saner or more utilitarian plan of dealing with a criminal population.

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is made so pleasant in confinement that instances are constantly occurring where a prisoner on release at once repeats his crime in order that he may be recommitted, and thus be enabled to return to his cosy and comfortable quarters in jail where, loafer and idler as he is, he only too well knows he will be cozened, well fed, well housed, and be every whit more happy than he could have been outside its precincts. It is a situation full of irony.

John Howard the philanthropist in his praiseworthy, selfsacrificing and heroic crusade against the abuses and cruelties practised in his day, not, only in the English prisons but in those of the Continent as well, did a grand and noble work, but he little dreamed his successors would in their foolish zeal rush to the very other extreme, and by their sickly, mawkish, mollycoddling sentimentalism and general treatment of criminals do so much towards robbing prison life of its rightful, absolutely essential and wholesome terror, which after all is its sole aim and object. They have, in fact, outHowarded John Howard himself, and the sooner a reaction sets in, and a return is made to a more rational and sounder treatment, the better for the country. I do not suggest that it would be possible for our criminals to be employed in the same way as I have above described—there are other ways to be found if sought for—but I do advocate on principle that a criminal should be treated with a strong and firm hand, and made to feel the result of his crime, if indeed the ends of justice are to be at all adequately met, and I write this from a lengthened and practical experience of prison life, its discipline, and its administration.

At the time when I arrived at Singapore medical practice was twofold—sea and shore. There were practically no wharves, and Tanjong Pagar Dock had hardly Beyond the mail boats, and one or been dreamt of. two small local ones, the shipping was almost wholly confined to sailing vessels, many being American, which, waiting for cargo or other reasons, made long stays.

To catch the sea " worm," the medical " birds " had to be up betimes, and down at the jetty by daybreak, when each one entered his boat, and was pulled out to the vessels as they made their way to their anchorage ground in a fine natural and sheltered harbour. He then got alongside, boarded each ship as it came in from East or West, interviewed the captain, and if things proved satisfactory, he was engaged to attend on liberal terms per mensem, besides having the refitting of the medicine chest with drugs at prices which would have made a home druggist's eyes open green from jealousy. With a few of these on your list, you

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could turn your face towards the shore with a mind at ease, and a sea appetite for breakfast.

The shore practice was most cosmopolitan, and kept one busy pretty well until 5 p.m. It embraced attendance on Europeans of many nations, Chinese, Arabs, Oriental Jews dressed as the Patriarchs, Armenians, Malays, and Eurasians.

These were halcyon days for the faculty, and came only too soon to an end. With the opening of the Suez Canal, steam displaced the sail, the steamer was barely in before she was off again, and the Pagoda tree with its golden fruit disappeared " in tenues auras," never to return.

Among my seafaring patients in those early days were some daring spirits, buccaneers as bold as any that graced and made famous the days of good Queen Bess, or ever sailed the Spanish Main, men who carried their lives in their hands, were a law only to themselves, and ready and eager to face any adventure. Armed to the teeth, in a small schooner belonging either to themselves or a Chinese owner, they would sail away to the little frequented by-ways and backwaters of the Malay Archipelago plying for trade, and their bedside tales to me on their return, beyond a doubt authentic, of their deadly and bloody encounters with Malay piratical hordes infestini, these parts, used to make my blood curdle, and I have ever since regretted that the time was wanting to write down there and then the words as they issued from their mouths. They would have read like a romance. These men would blackmail the various Rajahs along the coast, dictating almost their own terms for their purchase of rice, rattan, coconuts and other commodities, and with a full cargo would sail back again to Singapore, to resell it to the merchants there at a huge profit. They, like the Pagoda tree and the sailing vessels, have long disappeared, and with them the pirates themselves, and the place knows them no more.

One of these patients of mine was so dreaded that by friend and foe alike he was called " Rajah Laut, King of the Seas." They did well for themselves, but their work was perilous to a degree, and often proved fatal. Another interesting patient of mine, although of a different type, was Captain George Orton, brother of the claimant for the Tichborne Estates, who, when I first went out, ran a boat between Singapore and Siam, and as he got commission on all sales at both ends, amassed considerable wealth. He was like the claimant in face, and during the trial, we had many conversations together as to the probable issue. He showed me the Orton family Bible with the claimant's name in it, and he always impressed me with the belief that he inwardly

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knew the claimant was his brother and an impostor. When the lawyers in the case, Baxter, Rose and Norton, heard of his existence, they sent him out a photograph of Arthur Orton asking him to come home and give evidence, but he returned it, writing on the back, " If this is my brother, I hope he'll be hung, and if not, I do not see why I should, go home and bother about it," and he never went. He was a kindly man, and strangely enough in his many letters to me, there were the same mis-spellings and orthographic errors as occurred in the claimant's own, and I often wondered how far if they could have been shown at the trial, they would have gone to clinch the evidence for the prosecution.

My patient died soon after, and it was found his fortune had largely dwindled, and the conclusion was that the bulk had gone in Tichborne Bonds, in which he had invested in the belief that his brother would succeed in his claim.

After I had been some years in private practice, the post of Principal Civil Medical Officer fell vacant, and the then Governor asked me if I would accept the post were he to submit my name to the Colonial Office for approval. I consented, and was duly appointed in 1877, relinquishing there and then my private work.

The hospitals then were old ramshackle buildings having been converted from the old Sepoy barracks in the various settlements. These in my time were all knocked down and replaced by solid, handsome and substantial buildings, fully equipped, staffed and nursed, and supplied with all up-to-date and modern appliances, and they will be found, I think, to compare favourably for comfort and usefulness with any similar institutions at home. In my early days, cholera and smallpox were rife in the Settlements, but an improved and extended sanitation, compulsory vaccination, and a strict quarantine have practically driven them off, and they are no longer the cause of dread they were.

While holding the appointment, I had two rather interesting missions. One was a commission in 1887 to invest the King of Siam with the Order of the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. It was headed by Sir William Robinson, G.C.M.G., and I was the medical officer in attendance. H.M.S. " Modeste " was commissioned to take us there, and we duly steamed off to the Venice of the East, Bangkok. When thinking after some days we must be close to, a dense fog came on, during which we dared do nothing but spin round on our own axis. It lasted some thirty hours, and when it suddenly lifted we found ourselves nigh at hand.

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of the festivities to be gone through during our week's stay.

We were then escorted to the Embassy where we were royally fed and treated. The investiture came off on the day after our arrival, and without a hitch. The King was seated on his throne surrounded by a huge retinue of nobles in gorgeous robes, while we slowly, in measured steps, advanced towards the Royal presence, and through a spokesman invested him solemnly and in due form with the Order. The same night we dined at the Palace as guests of his Majesty, the nobles in full dress being also in attendance. All the service on the tables was gold. The following night we dined with the Prime Minister, the next with the Home Minister, the next with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and so on to the ( nd of our stay. During the day we were escorted to the various shrines and Pagodas with their huge Buddhas, both reclining and sitting, and to every scene of interest both in and around the city. We visited his Majesty's stud of elephants, his Royal whites among them, and his white peafowl: witnessed some cockfighting, and the other native pastimes and amusements of the country. The most imposing function was reserved for our last day. All his Majesty's gilt Royal barges were called out, and while the King and Queen with all the nobles in full dress and ourselves were assembled on a dais facing the river, at a given signal they began to move in single file, and as each glided slowly past Their Majesties, up went high in the air the sixty oars of the oarmen who pulled it, in salute to the King.. I do not think Bangkok will ever see such an imposing spectacle again, nor a commission so grandly treated as ours was.

The other mission was of a more trivial kind. The then little-known country of Pahang had been visited by an epidemic of smallpox, and its ruler the Sultan had evidently feared its reaching the inmates of the harem, and begged of the Straits Government to send him aid. I was despatched with a large supply of lymph in the Government steam yacht, and duly arrived. The Sultan was a confirmed opium smoker, and two days were gone before I got an interview. However, it ended in my vaccinating on a small portion of skin just visible through a slit in a curtain which divided us, the arms of the inmates, and it took me a long time to finish the work.

I then operated on a host of children waiting outside, and what lymph remained, I left with the native apothecary for his use. As we heard nothing of it afterwards, I conclude the disease gradually subsided. The Sultan as I left presented me with a nugget of native gold, and a silk sarong.

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who strongly advised me not to return. So at the end of my leave I reluctantly sent in my papers, and thus severed my quarter of a century's connection with the East, where I had spent many happy days with a good measure of hard work thrown in.

On my arrival in the Straits I was the only Aberdeen medical graduate there or in any place near, but in the course of time I got three or four out for private work and to fill Government posts, and they have gone on steadily increasing in numbers, like the trade and the flag, until now they are I should say distinctly in the preponderance, and all doing well, being scattered over the whole Settlements and Malay States as well. In Singapore an annual Aberdeen graduates' dinner is held, at which both the national drink and the national dish are freely partaken of, while " Scots wha hae " is sung. Long may it last, with increasing numbers! But outside medicine it is gratifying to see Aberdeen boys spreading themselves now over the Straits, and Malay States., and elsewhere, finding their way into good mercantile firms and entering into other enterprises as well, and I am assured that they are giving much satisfaction to their employers, and securing for themselves a reputation for steady and honest work. They mostly hail from the Aberdeen Grammar School, and here, in conclusion, I would add a word as to my experience of the education of an Aberdeen boy as I have found it. From what I learn, I understand it has not deteriorated, but been•extended and improved. I believe it to be at once sound and practical, embracing just the right training to enable a lad to face with courage the struggles, storms, stress and battles of his future life, and conquer them. This is, after all, the crucial test of education. In addition, there is something inherent in him of the Spartan nature, and there runs through him the telling grit of his native city, and if he only takes care of himself, and cherishes and holds on to it, there need be no fear. Take an Aberdeen boy, place him on an equal footing with others, and you will find him generally steer right ahead. I, for one, will confidently back him against all comers. Crescat floreatqae is the fervent wish of Yours faithfully, T. IRVINE ROWELL,

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Our Oldest School Book,; The very oldest school book of all is no doubt the 1522 Latin Grammar of John Vaus printed at Paris, and of which only one copy is known to exist, that in the University Library. It is covered with marginal notes possibly in the author's handwriting, and this would be the oldest extant memorial of a Former Pupil. The wasting in school books is great. Without death, as the elder Weller observed, the undertakers could not exist, and it may be stated with equal confidence that this decay in school books supports the educational publisher. I have seen no copy of any school book printed by Raban or his successors, though they must have existed, and however much schools may have been supplied by the cheap presses of the Dutch printers. If we omit the Latin Grammars of the. old Rector, David Wedderburn, the above book may be taken as the oldest extant specimen.

The book of 71 pages is not much to look at, yet the name of William Lilly (1468-1522) suggests a whole vista of historical memories. It brings up the names of his circle : Erasmus, William Grocyn, Thomas Linacre, John Colet, and Sir Thomas More: and it is associated with perhaps the greatest revolution in school theory and practice. John Colet, Dean of St. Paul's, founded in 1510 St. Paul's School, the school of Milton and Marlborough.

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"On his father's death," says Seebohm in The Protestant Revolution, p. 84: Epoch series, 1883, " he came into possession of his fortune, and nobly devoted it to the foundation of a public school by the Cathedral— in which boys, instead of being crammed with scholastic learning, were to be trained in the new learning, and instead of being taught the bad Latin of the monks, were to be taught the pure Latin and Greek which the Oxford students had imported from Italy ; and lastly, instead of being flogged and driven, were to he attracted and gently led into the paths of learning. Lilly was appointed schoolmaster. Erasmus and Linacre were set to work to write school books, and finding that no one else seemed able to write a Latin Grammar simple and easy enough for beginners, Colet wrote one himself. In his preface he said he had aimed, for the love and zeal he had for his new school, at making his little book on the eight parts of speech as easy as he could, 'judging that nothing may be too soft or too familiar for little children, specially learning a tongue unto them all strange.' and asking them to 'lift up their little white hands' fcr him, in return for his prayers for them.

Compare with these gentle words the practice of the common run of schoolmasters described by Erasmus, who, too ignorant to teach their scholars properly, had to make up for it by flogging and scolding, defending their cruelty by the theory that it was the schoolmaster's business to subdue the spirit of his boys."'

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The theory was, as at Monte Carlo, the man had to break the bank, or the bank the man; and it did not lack consistent practice. Everyone knows the brutal methods of flogging and bullying adopted by the headmaster of Christ's Hospital in the days of Charles Lamb and Coleridge. Addison has perpetuated, through Sir Roger, the fame of Busby at Westminster. Gladstone had stories of Keate at Eton. When Coleridge heard that his old master was dying, he burst out into the pious ejaculation: " May his faults be forgiven, and may he be wafted to bliss by little cherub boys, all head and wings, with no bottoms to reproach his sublunary infirmities."

The book is the memorial of this reformation. John Alexander, the compiler, was F.P. of the School, leaving in 1665 and graduating at Marischal College in 1669. In 1670 he was a junior master. His preface " To the Magistrats and Council of Aberdeen, and Patrick Dunn of Tartee," is here reproduced entire: " Right Honourable, Aberdeen, the Athens of Scotland, the most pleasant Abode .and Residence of the Muses, being the happy place of my own and foreFathers' Nativity and Education, as it doth justly challenge my love, so doth it my Service in this Paraphrastical Translation of the Moral Precepts of Cato and some others: which presumes to vendicat your Honours Patrocinie, it being for the Use of the School of which you are Patrons, and of which I had sometime the Honour to be one of the Masters, it being no contemptible Province to serve Church and State in Educating Youth in Vertue and good Letters. Masters who perform so good, so great, and so necessary a Work, deserve well, and are greatly to be Encouraged. Hence it is, that the greatest Monarchs are, and ever have been the greatest Encouragers of Arms and Arts: knowing well the great Advantages, which from Schools do arise. This Paraphrase, being in the Mother Tongue and in Metre, the Youth will more easily Recommend to their Memory these Precepts, for regulating by them their Manners ; in which, who doth not make progr€ss, tho he do in Letters, is more a Deficient than a Proficient, according to the Saying, Qui proficit in literis May it et deficit in moribus, plus deficit glum proficit. therefore please your Honours to accept this Mite, proceeding from a great good will, until some more valuable Service be performed by Your Honours, most• Humble, most Devoted and most Obliged Servitor, John Alexander."

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to find all through Alexander's text three idioms that have now passed away from the City. He retains the Burns idiom of the second person singular of the verb, which, though the usage of Aberdeen in Barbour's Brus, must have long been obsolete. Thus he writes, " When to others thou does good, Thyself ought silent be." Again, we find " for why " used as " because," which is historically interesting. In the famous Hundredth Psalm, written by the Genevan exile, William Kethe, and printed for the first time in Sternhold's Eighty-Three Psalms of David in English Metre: London, John Day, 1560, there appear the familiar lines, repeated ever since with the mistaken punctuation:— " For why ? the Lord our God is good, His mercy is for ever sure."

This shows that in 1560 the autograph " for why " equal to " because," the usage in Chaucer and elsewhere, was unknown to Day's printers, but still was standard in Aberdeen in 1706. " Als " for " also " is found.

In looking through the book I was glad to find the original of the well known motto of the Scottish Widows' Fund, Mutual Life Assurance Society, 1815, with the cut of a man leading a winged horse by the head; " Take time by the forelock: Fronte eapillata est, post est Oceasio ealva." This had worried me for years to trace, and now it is seen to be by Cato, thus Englished by our author, "Occasion is long haired before, But is quite bald behind." Milton, at St.. Paul's School, drew from the book there used Paradise Regained, iii., 172-3: " Zeal and duty are not slow, But on Occasion's forelock watchful wait."

Robert Southwell, the Jesuit poet (1561-95), takes from it: " Time wears all his locks before, Take thou hold upon his forehead : When he flies he turns no more, And behind his scalp is naked."

Defoe in his " Shortest Way with the Dissenters " quotes the Latin. Possibly the ultimate source of " Still waters run deep " may be iv. 31 : so rendered :— " Remember thou to eschew men Of sad and sullen mind, For where the river's smoothest, there The deepest waters find."

It is curious to find that this Cato book was the one on which Shakespeare was reared at Stratford. Before citing the manners impressed on him and on Aberdonians in 1706, let me cite the great Shakespearian editor Dr. Furnivall on

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the Elizabethan code of Lilly and his successors, thus introduced into the Grammar School.

The boy was thus trained :— " He was to rise early, put on his clothes, turn up his bed, go downstairs, salute his parents and the family, wash his hands, comb his head, see that his shoes were clean, wipe his nose on a napkin, pare his nails, clean his ears, wash his teeth. Then take his satchel, books, pen and paper, and off to school. On the way there, he was to take off his cap and salute the folk he met, giving them the inside of the road ; and he was to call his schoolfellows. At School, he was to salute his master and schoolmates, go straight to his place, undo his satchel, take out his books, and learn as fast as he could. After school he was to walk orderly home, ' Not runnynge on heapes as a swarm of bees, etc.' [I presume there was to be no " lang ingans" down Skene Street or Constitution Street on the way to the beach at 4 p.m., public baths, etc., being in the dim future.] He was to wait on his parents at table. First say grace : then make a low curtsey, and say ' Much good may it do you !' He laid clean trenchers and napkins (as forks were not in use, and folk ate with their fingers). At last he eats his own dinner, pausing a space ' for that is a sygne of nourture and grace.' He is to wipe his mouth, so that like Chaucer's Prioress, he may leave no grease on the cup. He must not spit too much, 'this mines of youth is to be abhorrde,' and only to laugh moderately, etc., etc., etc."

All this is in our book. If this was needed in 1706, I think we have on the whole advanced since then. Perhaps the book effected the change! I feel I ant safe in quoting the following:— " Thy Clothes let them be without spot, Thy Face and Hands washed clean, No spot or snivel at thy Nose, To hiug let there be seen ; Thy Finger Nails let not be long, From Filth let them be free ; From filthy Dust and Mire keep thou Thy Hair and also thy Shoe [' shee ' 1]..

Let not thy Tongue be hard or rough, Nor thy Teeth crusted be, And when so e'er thy Head doth itch, Scratch it not publiclie."

I must refrain about " the lice," and the stern imperative against swallowing " the snot of thy nose." Boys must not " rift• and belsh," nor chew at both ends of their mouth!

Who forgets the horrible manners of that British Solomon, James VI. of Scotland and First of England ? Some of the " Dr. Robert Chambers argued from the pronunciation of this word, confined to the city, in My Jo Janet,— Gude sir, for your eourtesie, Conan' through Aberdeen, then, For the love ye bear to me, Buy me a pair o sheen then, in Allan Ramsay's Tea Table Miscellany, 1724, that this old song is of Aberdeen origin.

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scenes in Erasmus' " Colloquies " show manners were extant only in France and Flanders.

The book concludes with a Latin and English encomium on Aberdeen New Aberdeen stands stately and most Fair, Plac'd well on Hills, enjoys a Healthful Air, Its Territories far it doth extend,

By Laws doth Rule these, and by Power Defend.

Near to the Sea, it Dee and Don commands, From these best Salmond sends to Forraign Lands.

Brave Sons of Mars this City doth bring forth, Which unto Forraign Nations show their Worth.

Fair and Chest Nymphs do always here remain, And of Grave Senators a Rev'rend Train.

Now into Town they Cardans Wells do bring, From which to Citizens great good doth Spring.

If to the Scots deep Wit and Learning flow, These to th' Aberdonian Schools they owe, The Seats of Muses and Apollos Court, What town in these, so happy is I doubt, These are her Burgers, so I may say well, That 'mongst these Mortals gods may please to dwell."

The date of the book is 1706. The last page is devoted to the wells of the town—in the Gallowgate ( Via Furcaria), in Broad Street (Via Lata), Castle Street (Via Arcis, Seu Foram), Upper and Netherkirkgate (Via Templi, Superior tt Inferior). The Municipal problem in 1706-7, as in 1913, was the water scheme. It was brought by Provost John Gordon from Cardan's Haugh Well, on the north bank of the Denburn, near the Grammar School, the Howe and the Well, which many Old Boys will remember, disappearing on the formation of North Albert Street. At the Haugh was a reservoir, and the water was led by leaden pipes to Castle Street, the well then erected being transferred in 1852 to the Green, where it still stands. Carden Place derives its name, says John Alexander, who was Medicus in 1706, from the celebrated Jerome Cardan, the algebraist, astrologist, and physician, invited to Scotland to cure Archbishop Hamilton in 1549. He visited Aberdeen and praised the quality of the water there at the Haugh.

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(Continued from February issue of the Magazine.)

What broad generalizations (about which, presently, a story) in school-day reminiscences of middle-aged Old Boys!

1 much appreciate the fact that no one interrupts with the remark: " Say, rather, what vague generalities." The gracidus silence encourages me to go on.

Not, however, before saying to myself : " How wise, Aberdonian wise, the beginning you have made•. What credit your opening reflects on the unscheduled training in courtesy, tact, and urbanity received at the School which is second to none in all the world. Besides, does it not, in relation to what you may write, evoke the charity which covers a multitude of omissions? " But to the story.

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Several were stated and illustrated. Two made a lasting impression. One was to the effect that literary genius was marked by the use made of the adjective. The second was— the power of making broad generalizations! Of the latter, Shakespeare and Burns were given as foremost masters. The illustration quoted from Burns alone survives in my memory.

It was the passage from " Tam o' Shanter ": " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever ; Or like the Borealis race, That flit ere you can point their place ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm."

To much that is transient in School life and in its memories these familiar words might fitly be applied, especially the touch about the " Borealis race " of Former Pupils. That, however, is not the point. It is this-0 ye who are so fearful, even as I am, to venture on reminiscences. Broad generalizations, a mark of literary genius! To the winds, then, with •fear. Subconscious self! came forth with thy broad generalizations, only to return to thy subliminal sphere covered with literary glory !

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Legge. In now running upstairs and walking most soberly into the class-room of Mr. Sleigh, I am conscious of awesome contrast. And, indeed, what monotony if there were but one type of Master, sameness of face, voice, method and everything else ! The dulcet, classic tones downstairs were the best preparation for listening to the complementary, if sterner, notes of the counting room above.

We took our seats at our desks, fortified by a great. central calm. Not always, at the time, did we realize the reasonableness of the austere air of our Master in Arithmetic and Mathematics. Some of us lost our calm as Mr. Sleigh moved from his desk in front and came passing up and down at the back of our seats. The very slates before us seemed to quake at his approach. And then, 0 then! as he bent over us with his long, index finger pointing at the folly of our figures, and with a pinch of his snuff falling on our slate, mingled were our feelings. To mention nothing else, we thought that our Master had lost more than his snuff. Now that we know how obtuse and slow was the thing we called our mind, we do not say that there was loss of temper, but only the needful, quickening expression of righteous indignation. Our point of view has changed.

Looking back and remembering that Mr. Sleigh was somewhat of a Dr. Temple--about whom you know the famous estimate of one of his boys, I am amazed at the sparing use which our Master made of the strap. Marvel of marvels, only once did my erratic fingers—I say not merit—receive its correction. Good boy, I took the tingling to heart. The one application went a long way.

For the consolation of any present scholar not born, any more than I was, a mathematician, will you allow me, Mr. Editor, to note a fact of which I was ignorant when given to. trembling in the afore-mentioned class-room ? That illustrious Former Pupil, George Gordon Byron, was no mathematician !

How sensitive he was to its pain to him and to its happiness to others ! Did he not write : " Unskill'd to plod in mathematic rules," and " Happy the youth in Euclid's maxims tried."

From Mr. Sleigh to our English Master, Mr. Macdonell !

Who that recalls both will wonder at the exclamation mark?

At the same time, each was after his own order. And all the Masters, with all their characteristics, were there for our good.

Many-sided was our education through their respective personalities. In the daily " quick-change " from Master to Master, we boys were receiving—probably more unconsciously than otherwise—not the least formative part of our education.

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his accent and manner no less than in his subject! An irreverent boy said that the Master had " swallowed an English carrot." " That's impertinence, sir! "—one of the Master's favourite darts at any boy who had a tongue with a sharp turn—came to the class considerably weakened for lack of the burr of the " r." Little did we then know of the larger meaning of culture, but somehow we felt that culture was what Mr. Macdonell embodied. And our brusqueness was something which he never " suffered gladly." This, more than anything else, made those searching eyes of his flash on the offender. Indeed, in spite of the muffled " r," was there ever a greater master of withering rebuke? The Doric avalanche of Mr. Sleigh left us far less injured. And yet, when Mr. Macdonell left us to go to the Bar in London we were not without an undersense that he had served us well.

It had been a hard task to teach grammar at the Grammar School—harder, no doubt, than to practise it in the Courts. . . . . . . . . . .

Our next English Master—Mr. Beaumont- —who came from Shetland, was suavity itself. His facial expressions were a daily entertainment. He had a way which I have never seen matched, of gathering up all his far-spread features right into his eyes. And then, the sight of them falling back into their proper places! It• was our most arresting English lesson on Humour. Withal, Mr. Beaumont was genuinely a man of feeling. He read in class really melting passages. In this he was like the late Professor Henry Morley, whose Literature Class I attended at University College, London. And he taught us to write " out of our eyes "—surely no unimportant function of teaching.

After Mr. Beaumont became Headmaster of Commerce Street Board School I met him more than once in a social circle, and it did not surprise me to find that he was " the life of the party." He bubbled over with almost boyish spirits. . . . . . . . .

I forget whether the teacher of History and Geography was Assistant to the English Master. At any rate these subjects were taught, and I cannot forget two of the candidates for the post after the office was vacated by Mr. (His name is lost to me, but I liked him ; he was the only teacher who could conscientiously put me in the Honours list !

See School Report for 1879 !). Sad to relate, we were positively cruel to those two candidates. One—Mr. A.—had a lisp, and we played on the fact. Boy after boy was summoned to the floor for strap-exercise. On one occasion the whole class rose and protested against the infliction on a culprit, whose name I will not divulge. Mr. A. retired.

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him " Steeple Jack." Unlike Mr. A., he did not punish a boy before the class, but told him to stay behind. This considerateness led to his undoing. It came out that detention provided the best of plays. Several boys (this saintly writer among them) made a solemn vow to win detention. The sequel : Five or six boys shut in with the mountainous marl. " Come here, Halley "—the strap swinging in the caller's hand. Halley off on a sprint, not towards the tawse, but out and in among the forms, with " Steeple Jack " in hot pursuit. Caught, the pursued seizes and tugs at the weapon of the pursuer ; both are brought low and sprawl together on the floor. " Leave the room ; the Rector will hear of this ! " gasped the mountain on rising. For days we hardened our hands for Rectorial treatment, but to this day they are without their desert. Like Mr. A., Mr. M. deemed it wise to retire.

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He asked a question. The answer involved the turning towards him of one of my cheeks ! Instantly it was probed by his inky pen. I did not turn to him the other cheek also.

After class I punched him; in fact, with more than " one buffet, I laid his structure low."

That apart, the years in the Class were of unqualified pleasure, and, if you could see my handwriting, how dare you say, without marked profit! It is safe to say that never in all the centuries of its history has our School had a more genial and human Master than Mr. Samuel Pope—the ineffable, the incomparable, the immortal Pope. I say that even with my eye, as I write, on my knuckles ! What boy ever resented the spiral descent of our Master's ruler? It was done so smilingly, so often with rhyme, and always with reason. " 0 fie, Carnegie! " accompanying the contact of ruler with knuckles, is more to me than many poems without the human personal touch. And the extreme penalty of the Papal law, the writing out of the 119th Psalm, who did not pay it with cheerful submission?

Of many unforgettable incidents, one only here. The then Ecclesiastical Pope had died. Coming into Class the day of the announcement, our Pope was greeted with, " Sir, the Pope is dead." With, and in the twinkling of an eye, this the reply, " Yea, verily ; take care or you will soon have another Pope dead ! " It is a joy to his hosts of Former Pupils all

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over the world that the other Pope is still serenely alive. Long live the Pope ! " And so say all of us."

So far, the broadest generalizations as to Masters. What of my old Class-mates? I see them one by one as they were more than a generation ago. Of many of them, I could write much, not only generally, but very particularly. I must, however, for more than one reason, stay my hand. The preliminary Rolls issued with the pensive foreword— " Information Wanted " make me long for the day when Mr. Theodore Watt's labour of love—" The Record of Old Boys —will come out as the light. And whatever the cost, of this I am sure, that I shall possess it, even if I be living on the doorstep of the Workhouse. And, again, who shall read it with more absorbing interest?

Till then, and always—The King, The School !

JOSEPH D. CARNEGIE. Bond Street Congregational Church, Leicester, 13th October 19I3.

P.S.-After the above was sent to the Editor with a note about the omission of a " Sporting " par., out of doubts as to available space, back came the gracious request for the unwritten paragraph. Briefly then :—In the Magazine I read with wonder touched by envy of the School Sports of present pupils. What variety, facilities, and not least vestments compared with the lot of last generation ! As to our vestments, we wore nothing to distinguish us from ourselves as we were when hard at work in classroom—not even a fancy cap. Once when I appeared on the football field with a new suit—it looked like Harris tweed but cost pounds less and was part of a frowsy job lot, I was greeted by a wag of a player (by the way, what has become of him—John Moir: I see his name in the " Information Wanted " Roll—he was a splendid comrade, besides being in the General Excellence Class List), I was greeted with, " Here comes J. in football costume, the very thing for our School—Brussels carpet ! " Whatever our rig, and however imperfect the organization of our games, we had real sport and were not one whit behind the real sportsmen of to-day. Gone are the sloping " Kits." absorbed by Esslemont Avenue, where, even more than in the spacious field behind the School, we had many a game contrary perhaps to rule and system but certainly in harmony with the spontaneity and resourcefulness of boys " let out ” of school. For instance, there was that extemporaneous wrestling, now no more: at least there is no breath of it in the present School Notes. It is ours of a past generation to glory in such events. Who that saw it can forget the

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wrestling match between England and Scotland as represented in the persons of Broomhead and myself ! With what spirit, to say nothing of skill, we embraced each other for the honour of our respective countries. And the surrounding suspense as time and again doubts were grave about " Scotland for ever " ! Of course, I could have settled the issue by the very first move, only I did not want to upset the old Union of 1603 ! The honours were even. Not so the scars.

In the final, I reeled against the dyke (long since removed, with the gardens it overlooked) and stove in, not my head, but my left ear. It was that which made the honours even.

Since the event till now I have been earmarked, of which I am distinctly proud.

Gone, too, is the Gilcomston Dam which in those frosty winters used to be a skating annexe of the School. Glowing memories, however, remain. Among them Lindley Scott's fireside in a street adjoining the Dam. Our classmate often took me in to get dried before my two mile walk home, an l warmed me within as well. Where is Lindley now? Let this assure him that his kindness is still to memory dear.

But there, Mr. Editor—a paragraph, said you? And all in a postscript. Cut it down or omit it, I shall all the same swear—reverently, of course—by the School of schools.

J. D. C.

The Remains of Marshal Keith.

Lord Kintore, in a recent. letter to The Times expressing his pleasure at the placing of a laurel wreath by the Colonel and officers of the German Infantry Regiment Keith No. 2 on the statue in Peterhead of Marshal Keith, on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the establishment of that regiment, mentions that by the Emperor's desire he has been allowed more than once to look on the remains of Marshal Keith in the vaults o•f the Garrison Church in Berlin. Lord Kintore adds:— " He lies coffined in full uniform, with the Riband and Star of the Black Eagle, minus only his sword, which was taken from him by the Austrians when he fell at Hochkirch more than 150 years ago.

His features are so perfectly preserved as to have enabled me to say without difficulty which of the several pictures I have of him at Keith Hall are good likenesses. " Field-Marshal James Keith was, as everybody knows, educated at the Aberdeen Grammar School. He was a schoolfellow with Alexander Cruden, of " Concordance " fame. A portrait of the Field-Marshal was reproduced in the Magazine of February 1908.

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Railroad Construction in the Canadian Bush.

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Chapleau, Ontario, 6th October, 1911 6.40 a.m.

Dear Sir, At 6.30 a.m. on October mornings we are awakened by the clanging of the cook's bell.

This means that breakfast will be on the table piping hot at 7 sharp. We grunt annoyance, roll over, and in ten or fifteen minutes decide to get up, and are soon splashing water over ourselves or picking up articles of clothing from the floor and pulling them on. I am in a small wooden shack, furnished with two beds—for myself and partner, a washstand with pail, bucket. and soap-saucer, a table and a desk littered with writing and reading materials : on the walls, shelves—two of them—one with a line of very varied literature, and the other covered with medicines, and shaving and other toilette necessaries.

Then there are photographs on the walls : photographs of our homes and friends, and a few pictures of former feats of railroad construction.

Out at the door as the breakfast gong rings! The air is sweet and cool. I pause to drink it in, and feed on the beauties of the Fall morning. The sun is just rising behind me, but is high enough to glint on the tree tops in the west.

The leaves are yellowing, shining bright against a dark background of pine and balsam. The hills beyond, broken with rocky points, make a ragged horizon. The paper-covered shacks and the fallen logs lying along the edge of the swamp are covered with a pure white frost. The men are coming strewing from the bunk houses and pouring into the cookery, and presently I can distinctly hear the clatter of knives and spoons on dishes, and I wander over with my partner to feed on something more solid than beauty.

After breakfast there is a few minutes' rest, and then the whistle on the steam shovel blows and the men scatter—some to the fill, some to the cut, others drawing wood, and the teamsters get their teams out for a ten hours' day. The night previous the walking boss has had the day's work mapped out and each foreman knows where to take his gang and what. to do with them.

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But if everything always went like clockwork a contractor's life would indeed be a happy one. Sometimes the clock runs down, and men must be dismissed and replaced. Sometimes it gets broken and repairs must be done, which costs money and worries the contractor.

Seeing the work going smoothly this morning, as it should on such a beautiful morning, I proceed to the office and go over a few things with the book-keeper, arrange some matters perhaps in connection with transportation of supplies or with the buying of more supplies, and then out into the open air and into the cut to superintend, or I walk a few miles down the right-of-way to one of our other camps. We have three or four camps, each run by a walking boss, but each supplied from our headquarters, where are situated the storehouses— of dynamite, groceries, stable supplies, and hardware. They send in orders from the other camps and we send them the supplies required, charging each camp with what it gets.

Each other camp then keeps track of each department to which these supplies are in turn sent, so that here we have a systematic record of whether any cut, or stable, or cookery is making money, and if they are losing, then the foreman or cook, as the case may be, is held responsible.

Railway contracting in this country is very different from the same work in Scotland. We take a contract to construct a piece of work. The contract is let to us either by a head contracting company that is responsible for, say, two or three hundred miles of line, or else directly by the railway company.

We contract to remove the material and put it where instructed for certain prices dependent on classification—solid rock, loose rock, hard pan, and common excavation. We then come in, build our camps, and take out the cuttings and make the fills as laid out by the resident engineer. In some cuts we employ teams and cars, in others steam shovels and locomotives. Fills may be made by wheel barrows or carts, depending on the height or situation of the fill. We build offices, warehouses, and stores, bunk houses and dining camps.

The men sleep in the bunk houses, being supplied with blankets by us, and we charge them a fixed rate per week for board. We run a store, in which we sell all kinds of clothing, tobacco, snuff, pipes, and razors, and in fact anything a man needs for his comfort. Nearly all our men this year are Russians and Italians. We pay them from 20 to 22i cents an hour, and they sometimes work thirteen or fourteen hours a day for six days a week, and we charge $4.50 a week for board, so you see they make very good money and can save a lot.

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ourselves and a party of engineers who camp near, but work is the order of the day. On week days we work from 7 a.m. till 6 p.m., after that office work till 9 p.m., an hour's reading by the stove, and then to bed. Perhaps on Saturday night we meet and play cards—poker or auction bridge. Once a month I take a trip out on business, and in the winter time, when work is slack, we often have a long holiday. Only three weeks ago I happened to be in Toronto and knew that our old Editor, Stanley Russell, was being married in St. Thomas, so I went down and had a good old chat with him about " Grammar" days. I saw him safely married and away to Niagara for a short honeymoon before taking his wife back to England. Last week in Toronto I met three old " Grammarians "—Herbert Bower and James Ogilvie, who were over on a business trip, and Murray Garden, who is now partner in one of the leading law offices in Toronto.

It is pleasant having these meetings, especially when they are so unexpected. Just now I am on the C.P.R. main line between Sudbury and Port Arthur—right in the bush and glad to be there.

I have been up in this country now for four years, and the fascination of it is indescribable. Two weeks in the city makes one want to get back to the bush again. The little cabin is comfortable, plenty to read, and plenty to smoke, and plenty to eat and drink, and outside the bush : its towering trees, and lakes, and creeks. You may fish when you like, and shoot when you like, and there is nothing to worry you. Of course there is trouble in the work—lots of it : without that it would be too much like Paradise altogether. Of course also there are cold bitter days, and wet cheerless days, and sometimes hot and sweltering days, but these are few in Canada.

Even the most discontented or disappointed emigrant will not write home to the papers complaining about the Canadian climate. The winter certainly is hard, and one must be hard to enjoy it, but these cold snappy days make you feel alive, and that's a good feeling always. We miss the social gatherings and the music, the proximity to things going on in the world, and very often the companionship of women—of our mothers and sisters and other people's sisters, but we are not always in the backwoods, and when we go out• and feel how much we really did miss all these, how we enjoy them and wonder why all our old men friends are blasé!

I hope to be over in Scotland before long—maybe in time for the " Grammar " ball, and I wonder how many people I shall know. Very few perhaps, but then I shall have the pleasure of making new friends. [I find it is now halfpast seven and the men are all out, and I have missed my

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breakfast !] " Grammar " boys will never make a mistake by coming out to Canada, but let them come out young—with a little business training, a few dollars, very little timidity and a keen enjoyment of life. I was going to add, with lots of good horse-sense, but they all have that. So long !

BOB FLEMING. [In a covering note Fleming says that he has written the foregoing to encourage other F. P.'s to describe the life they are leading. We sincerely trust his object will be fulfilled. "Where are all the worthies in the Classical side who sat at the top of the class year in, year out, and took honours in English at the 'Varsity?" Echo answers " Where. "— Ed. A. G. S. Magazine.]f

Dark Days in Johannesburg.

An Old Boy's Strike Experiences.

How many there are at home who imagine Johannesburg as a veritable hotbed .of iniquity: a place where the very scum of the earth collect and seemingly thrive ! That I know was the picture placed before me when I left the Old Country, but I had never given the matter much thought It was then clearly until the recent strike commenced. demonstrated that Johannesburg was a city where the lowest Hundreds of . characters type of htimanity is concealed. " wanted " for years have been discovered, so that if the strike had no beneficial effect in other respects, it was very helpful in this direction.

It is not my intention to attempt in any way to discuss the justification or otherwise of the strike which has recently occurred on the Witwatersrand, but merely at the request of our Secretary to give a few of my own personal experiences during its continuance.

For a considerable time before the strike actually took place it was quite apparent that the miners were merely waiting a suitable opportunity for giving vent to their longexisting grievances. The opportunity presented itself in the month of June when the management of a group of mines issued instructions for certain alterations in the working hours of the miners. The workers immediately adopted a hostile attitude, and eventually refused to work. On all the mines a ballot was taken, which in most cases resulted unmistakably against a general strike, but the voice of the miner was ignored by the " Union," and a strike declared.

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mass meeting of miners was called on the Market Square, Johannesburg, in order to discuss matters in general and arrange a plan of campaign. The Government, however, prohibited the meeting as they feared it might lead to further trouble and disorder. At the time appointed a huge gathering of people—for the most part composed of miners—had collected, and several of the strike leaders endeavoured to speak. Women are ever in the forefront where trouble is concerned, and this case was no exception to the rule. A married woman acted really as the chief leader, and to my mind was the root of the evil. However, the foot police received instructions to disperse the crowd and clear the Square, but they were powerless in the face of stones, bottles, etc., which were thrown at them from all sides. The help of the mounted police was thereupon sought.

By this time the citizens were thoroughly alarmed; business was practically at a standstill ; and all flocked to the Market Square to view the proceedings from afar. Several times the mounted men charged the crowd, waving their batons fiercely in the air, but this did not seem to worry the now infuriated crowd, and it soon got back to its original Public houses were closed as a precautionary position. measure; the trams were stopped; and the strikers would not allow a train to leave the station. It was doubtful if the theatres would give their performances in the evening, The and consequently immense losses were sustained.

Quinlan Opera Company were in the midst of a 3 weeks' engagement, and must have suffered severely. People preferred to remain indoors rather than risk their lives.

About 10 o'clock that night a friend whom I had been visiting offered a motor drive home, which I gladly accepted.

He himself did not accompany me, so I took the opportunity of driving into town and learning the latest news! The railway station was well alight, and as I got closer I understood the position at once. The place had been looted, and the strikers succeeded in holding the police back until the fire was properly kindled. There is little doubt that the fire was the work of hooligans and not of strikers, but after all hooliganism was the chief characteristic of the strike. The fire brigade was present at the station fire, but could do nothing with their hose, as it had been cut. The clang of the fire bell elsewhere drew me. away to the scene of another outbreak.

This time a newspaper building, known as the " Star " office, was surrounded by an angry mob, and immediately on the approach of the firemen, stones and bottles were freely used. It should be explained that this newspaper is largely supported by the mining magnates, and as one can naturally understand the worker imagines it has nothing good

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to say about him. The firemen had to retire, and the mob thereafter smashed the windows and coolly set fire to the place with matches. It is hard to express one's feelings at the sight, but I know that in my mind's eye I could see a ruined Johannesburg to-morrow. The fire had a good start before a company of mounted police charged down the street and fired revolver shots in all directions. I ran for dear life, and stopped only because I was curious to know why the ambulance was present. As things turned out, it was an unfortunate stop for I discovered I was in the centre of a mob of hooligans or so-called strikers. One man carried a small handbag which evidently contained sticks of gelatine, and in course of conversation he told me he had placed several sticks in the " Star " office and, " We've done for it this time."

It is useless and indeed dangerous to argue with such people, so I thought it wise to agree with all he said and say as little as possible. He pulled a bottle of something from his pocket (whisky I presume), and invited me to have a drink, but I was T-T. on a night of that kind. I was very thankful to escape from their midst. Next I ran against the manager of a business house adjoining the " Star " office, and pointed out the danger in which his building stood. " I know," he replied, " but what can I do except let it burn ! " Fortunately it was saved by the wind. I had just seen about enough for one night, and wended my weary way home to the accompaniment of occasional revolver shots. I had to pass the railway station once again, and found that soldiers had now taken possession and were carefully guarding baggage saved from the wreckage. " There," said one, as we listened to the noise of the revolver shots, " they mean to kill."

On Saturday morning the town presented a weird sight.

Gunsmiths' shops had been looted; other shops had windows smashed; buildings bore the marks of bullet shots ; and horses' bodies were lying in the middle of the street. It must have The Government were been a night of severe fighting. making rapid preparations to cope with the situation, and troops poured in from all parts of the country. Martial Law —or its substitute in this country—was proclaimed by the Governor-General, and citizens were advised to seek the shelter of their homes as early as possible in the day. The town was truly in a state of anarchy. During the morning very little business was done. Shopkeepers were under the thumb of the strikers and threatened with all manner of evil if they dared to open their shops. Few, if ally, knew how long this state of affairs might last, and consequently housekeepers made heavy purchases to tide them over the struggle. Until about mid-day it was perfectly safe to walk in the street, but driving was positively dangerous. Cabs were overturned and

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motor cars were damaged to such an extent that they could not proceed.

Unfortunately I could not get home early, as I had an appointment with two friends who could not leave town until 3 o'clock.

Until then I passed the time by viewing the crowds from afar, or watching two strikers having a good old fight because one had stolen some fruit from a shop and satisfied his own hunger without considering the hunger of others. As I approached the club of our mining magnates I saw an enormous crowd outside, and it was evident that the strikers were planning dirty work. Led by a woman and armed with hatchets they entered the club and returned laden with golf sticks, overcoats, baggage and a few other odds and ends. A general attack was then made, and I'm certain that not a window remained intact on the ground floor. An attempt was made to set the club alight, but fortunately it ended in failure. Just then a detachment of mounted men rode up and got the order to dismount and line across the streets leading to the club. The officer in command evidently thought the sight of the troops would scare the crowd, and ordered the men to remount. But he was mistaken. Stones were thrown mercilessly, and must have injured many.

The men again got orders to dismount and take up their old positions. A volley was fired, and the result was too gruesome for words. A few yards from me lay a man bleeding profusely from a wound in the abdomen, and I saw still another sitting in a doorway with his hand hanging off.

Others with injuries more or less serious were strewn about the street.

I along with others helped to tend the first sufferer, and were fortunate in securing the services of a nurse. The man, however, seemed to be beyond human aid.

The ambulance came along, but could not come to our assistance at the moment, as the driver indicated by means of his fingers that there were serious cases farther along the street.

In view of this we hailed the first vehicle in the vicinity, which happened to be a small dogcart, and after tying a white handkerchief to the driver's whip, sent our patient with all speed to the hospital. The shooting only increased the wrath of the strikers, and of the leaders in particular. One of them fearlessly pulled off his coat, walked into the middle of the street and shouted, " Shoot me, you b—." He was given a few moments to retire, but preferred to remain and was shot dead. My own position at this particular moment was rather exciting. I had no means of escape, as the troops were firing down the street. By my side women were crying for their husbands and children for their parents; a perfect panic prevailed. Every few moments as the soldiers raised rifles to their shoulders, a wild rush was made for shelter in

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passages or inside the buildings. I quickly realized that this state of affairs could not last much longer and that some effort must be made to relieve the position. My friends were ready to move homewards, and the only choice we had was either to bolt across the firing line or adopt the sane policy of seeking protection in so doing. We were not prepared to risk much, so I nervously waved a handkerchief from behind a stone wall, and much to our relief got the order from the officer to go across. After that we had to cross the firing line twice and kept the white flag flying until we were safely out of all danger. It was a heartbreaking sight to see the continuous stream of vehicles of all descriptions racing to the hospital with the wounded, who for the most part were quite innocent. Still it was a fateful day for those that ventured out from a spirit of curiosity. That night I went as far away from the town as I possibly could, and scarcely—if ever— have I experienced in this country a night of such peaceful calmness. The batteries on the mines had stopped, and not• a sound could be heard in the town itself. The worst appeared to be over late in the afternoon when a truce was called in order to give an opportunity to both parties to meet and consider matters. At nine o'clock peace was declared.

The eventful day is now known as " Bloody Saturday."

Sunday was a quiet day to all except the troops. It is a remarkable coincidence that rain fell in torrents for several hours on this day, it being a most unusual occurrence at this season of the year. I took a walk through the town to see the ravages of the preceding day. Bloodstains marked the road, and on a wall was written, " This is human blood."

The town had a most depressing appearance.

Monday, or " Black Monday " as it is called, was the burial day for the unfortunate victims of Saturday, and mostly all the places of business were closed. Thus ended the days of the strike, days which we hope will never again return.

And now in September we are told by the Labour Party that the lives of General Botha and General Smuts, the representatives of the Government who acted on behalf of the mine-owners, were threatened when the peace conference was held, or in other words that peace was concluded at the point of the revolver. This statement is firmly denied by the Government representatives, and no importance is therefore attached to it.

The trouble is undoubtedly a bitter struggle between labour and capital. Nobody knows which of the forces will predominate, but of this we are certain, that capitalists possess what the labourists lack, viz., powers of endurance.

DAVID STRACHAN [1893-1902].

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Letter from a Malabar Tea Estate.

Teuramulla Estate, Sultan's Battery Y.O., Wynaad, Malabar, South India, 25th June, 1913.

Dear Sir, * * * * * * * * * * I left the Old eighteen months since It is now a matter of Country and came out East. During that time I have always had the .1/(rga:ine forwarded to me, and very welcome it has been. My first four months I spent with Mr. Sinclair, of Rangalla Estate, Ceylon, who is an F.P. He has just been elected a member of the Ceylon Legislative Council.

For more than a year now I have been over in India, with the East Indian Tea and Produce Co., Ltd., and I must say I have never regretted leaving the Old Country to start tea planting. I have run across quite a number of F.P.'s since I came out East. To begin with, I travelled out in the same boat with an old class-fellow of mine—Norrie Brown [1898-1905]—who is now planting in Ceylon. I had not been in Colombo for an hour till I ran into Douglas Watson [18921900], while I also saw George Sleigh [1902-05]. Irvine Stewart [1899-1904], another F.P., came out and joined this company a few months ago. He is one of my near neighbours, being only 18 miles distant. An older brother of hisT. C. Stewart [1886-87]—is also in this company, as superintendent of Perengodda Estate, Vayitri P.O., Wynaad.

I was very interested in Fisher's letter in the last issue of the " Mag." As in his case, my day starts at 5 a.m., when I get up and have " choata," and get the coolies mustered at 6 o'clock; then it• is 11.30 or 12 noon till I get back to the bungalow again for breakfast. I do not quite see why the mid-day meal should be called " breakfast," but such it is, and will, I expect, always be in the planting districts. My day does not end at 4 p.m., for though the field works are stopped then, the pluckers' leaf has to be weighed and despatched to the factory and the names of all the coolies who have worked that day have to be taken. After getting back to my bungalow and having tea and getting changed, etc., I have to set to and enter all the coolies' names into the big check roll, and have also the leaf books to enter up. At the end of the month the biggest rush conies, as the check roll has then to be made out showing the ooolies' pay and the cost of works for the month. As the check roll has to be made up after working hours, it means a case of working till 12 mid-

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night or 1 in the following morning for two or three nights in succession, in order to have it ready by the 4th of the month.

There is no chance of using a cycle on the estates here, as the places are so steep that it would be a case for the hospital every time one attempted to cycle round the estate. Superintendents are given a horse allowance, but the poor assistant has to rely entirely c•n his feet, unless he be a wealthy I may say individual and can afford a horse for himself. that I have never run across that sort of assistant yet. I was lucky enough to have a horse for two months during the hottest part of the year, while I was left in charge here when my " boss " was up on the hills.

I have never had to tackle Fisher's clergyman part of the business yet, as over here, if the coolies think it necessary to marry, they attend to that part of the performance themselves. The doctoring and law part of the business has often cropped up.

If a man wants to start planting thoroughly well-equipped for the job, he ought first to be a fully-qualified engineer, then a competent accountant. A course of dispensary and infirmary work should also be undertaken, and then, if he has a fairly good gift for languages, he may feel thoroughly prepared to commence learning planting.

In this part we have three languages to become acquainted with. These are Tamil, Canarese, and Malayan, which latter is the principal language of Malabar ; but as the great bulk of our labour force is imported from Mysore and Coimbatore, Canarese and Tamil are the two languages which are most necessary to us.

I don't envy Fisher his Javanese and Chinese labour.

They are awful villains, I believe. We have very little trouble with labour over here. One does occasionally hear of planters being attacked by their coolies, but it is always the planter's own fault, as the coolies we have to work with will stand any amount of hard treatment, so long as it is absolutely just, and punishment never given unless it is well deserved.

Besides Tamils and Canarese, who form the large part of our labour force, we have various Malabar tribes working on the estates. Altogether there are about twelve different kinds of tribes who do estate work in Wynaad.

The jungles here are teeming with big game, such as tigers, elephants, panthers, bears, pigs, and deer, but so far I have never been lucky enough to get a shot at any of them, although I have been quite close to a panther on two occasions, but unfortunately I was not armed at the time.

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sporting day here, and I am afraid that keeping the Sabbath is an unknown art in these parts. As a matter of fact, Sunday is the only day that one has any time to indulge in sport of any kind, and sometimes in the busiest seasons of the year even on Sundays the pluckers have to be turned out to work.

Well, I find that, although I originally sat down merely to send a short note, I have inflicted quite a lengthy discourse on you, which will very probably be of no interest to you or any one else. However, as it was immediately after reading Fisher's account of life on a coconut estate that I penned this effusion, if there is any blame to be given please lay it all on to Fisher.

I am very glad indeed to see that the F.P. Club is in such a flourishing condition. We exiles out here miss a lot of the benefits of the Club in the way of social entertainments, etc., but as we cannot participate in them, the next best thing is to read of what we might be doing if we were at home, and to look forward to the time, on our next visit home, when we may be able to join you in some of these events.

Yours sincerely, R. COPLAND [1902-07].

Our Contemporaries.

The Editor begs to acknowledge receipt of the following magazines, with apologies for any omissions :—" Glasgow High School Magazine," " Alloa Academy Magazine," " Magazine of Foyle College, Londonderry," " Penang Anglo-Chinese 'Scholars' Own " (4), " The Boltonian," " C.A.I.," " St. Andrew's College Magazine " (Dublin), " The Yellow Dragon " (4), " Royal Belfast Academical Institution Magazine," " Edinburgh Academy Chronicle " (3), " Sligo Grammar School Magazine," " The Portmuthian " (2), " The Era-smian " (2), " Montrose Academy Magazine," " The IDlavian " (2), " The Herioter," " Stewart's College Magazine," " The Westovian," " The Southportian," " The Courier," " The Fettesian," " Glasgow Academy Chronicle," " St. Andrew's College Magazine" (Grahamstown, Transvaal), " The Scotch Collegian " (Melbourne).

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The School Athletic Sports.

THREE RECORDS BROKEN. Our Annual Athletic Sports took place in the School Grounds on Friday, 12th, and Wednesday, 17th September. They had been originally fixed for Friday and Saturday, 12th and 13th, but the weather was so wet on Saturday, that the Rector postponed the second day's proceedings till Wednesday, 17th. On Friday the weather was dull but dry, and there was a large attendance of boys and a 'sprinkling of friends. On Wednesday, the rain which had been falling at intervals during the first half of the week, cleared off, and we had a bright sunny afternoon.

The entry was very good this year, and a standard of general excellence was maintained. The feature of the sports was the breaking of three records by Joss ; two of which are believed to be records for Scotch Schools.

On Friday, as usual, there were the jumping competitions and the various trial heats. The Open High Jump was won by W. T. B. •Joss, with a magnificent jump of 5 ft. 5 ins. The previous record was 5 ft. 3 ins., and it will be some time before this record is beaten. W. O. Fiddes, who was second, also broke the record by an inch. A novelty on Friday was the Egg-and-Spoon Race, which afforded great amusement to the spectators. In the Open Broad Jump, W. T. B. Joss again broke the record with a huge jump of 21 ft. 1 in. Joss jumped right over the pit and landed on the high ground beyond, thus losing a few inches. Here again W. O. Fiddes, who was second, broke the previous record.

On Wednesday, the proceedings were livened by the strains of our old friend, the Oakbank Band, which discoursed sweet music at intervals during the afternoon. The first event was the Open Hurdles, which was won by W. O. Fiddes in 14 secs. Joss had hard lines here, slipping on the damp grass at the second hurdle but recovering himself sufficiently to reach the tape second.

The Cricket Ball was won by W. O. Fiddes with a very good throw of 86 ft. 9 in. In the Open 100 Yards, Joss again broke the record in the excellent time of 10 1-5 secs. The Open Half-Mile was won

by I. R. Spark, who kept ahead from the start (time-2 mins. 17₹ secs.). There was a close fight between Fiddes and Joss for the Open Quarter-Mile, but Fiddes managed to maintain his lead to the tape. A new race was essayed this year, the V.C. Race. It was a great success, and we owe our thanks to Mr. Summers for suggesting it. There were a few alterations in the Obstacle Race this year, and it was as great a source of amusement to the spectators as ever. The Tug-of-War was won again by Modern.

Classical pulled well for the first pull but collapsed at the second.

Our best thanks are due to Mr. P. Edward, who acted as referee ; to Dr. McLeod, as timekeeper ; to Mr. J. C. Knox and Mr. A. Speirs, as judges ; to Mr. J. B. Summers, as starter ; and especially to Mr. J. Davidson, the Hon. Secretary of the Games Committee, by whom all arrangements were made.

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List of Prize-Winners.

The following is a list of events and prize winners :—

FRIDAY.I.—High Jump (Open)--1 W. T. B. Joss, 2 W. O. Fiddes. Height 5 ft. 5 ins. (record).

II.—High Jump (Class II.)-1 J. W. Stephen, 2 J. C. Anderson, 3 G. C. Kelly. Height-4 ft. 8 ins.

III.—High Jump (Class III.)-1 E. G. Grafton, 2 G. Dean, 3 J. H. Peters. Height-4 ft. 6 ins.

IV.—High Jump (Class IV.)-1 E. R. Sorley and R. D. Strachan (equal).

V.—High Jump (Class V.)-1 H. D. Christie and J. Grant (equal), 3 T. T. Curr and A. J. M. Edwards (equal).

VI.-XV.--Trial Heats.

XVI.-Broad Jump (Open)-1 W. T. B. Joss, 2 W. O. Fiddes.

Distance-21 ft. 1 in. (record).

XVII.-Broad Jump (Class II.)-1 J. Fiddes, 2 J. C. Anderson, 3 J. W. Stephen. Distance-15 ft. 2 in.

XVIII.—Broad Jump (Class III.)-1 W. F. MacLennan, 2 J. G. Stewart, 3 E. G. Grafton.

WEDNESDAY.-

1.—Hurdle Iiace (Open)--1 W. O. Fiddes, 2 W. T. B. Joss. Time —14 secs.

II.—Hurdle Race (Class II.)-1 C. F. Thomson, 2 J. W. Stephen, 3 J. Fiddes and C. M. H. Sutherland (equal).

III.—Hurdle Race (Class IIL)-1 J. G. Stewart, 2 E. G. Grafton.

IV.-60 Yards (Under 6)-1 A. M. Mart, 2 G. Davidson and J. K. Donald (equal).

V.—80 Yards (Under 7)-1 E. M. Munro, 2 R. W. Ross, 3 A. R. Wilson.

VI.-100 Yards (Class III.)-1 R. Holmes, 2 C. W. Thomson, 3 I. B. Munro.

VIL—Throwing the Cricket Ball (Open)-1 W. O. Fiddes, 2 G. C. Whyte. Distance—86 yards 9 ins.

VIII.-100 Yards (Class V.)-1 W. Holmes, 2 J. Grant, 3 S. I)uffus.

IX.-100 Yards (Class IV.)-1 W. D. Symons, 2 F. Anderson, 3 • ' A. G. Esslemont.

X.-100 Yards (Class III.)-1 E. G. Grafton, 2 A. R. Angus, 3 J. G. Stewart.

XI.-100 Yards (Class II.)-1 C. F. Thomson, 2 J. W. Stephen, 3 P. D. Lawrence.

XIL-100 Yards (Open)--1 W. T. B. Joss, 2 W. O. Fiddes, 3 A. Hendry. Time-10 1-5 seconds (record).

XIII.-300 Yards' (Class V.)-1 W. Holmes, 2 H. D. Christie, 3 H. Gunther.

XIV.-300 Yards (Class IV.)--1 F. Anderson and E. Watt (equal), 3 W. D. Symons.

XV.-300 Yards (Class III.)--1 E. G. Grafton, 2 J. G. Stewart, 3 D. Stephen.

XVI.—Throwing the Hammer (Open)--I. R. Spark. Distance72 ft. 71 ins.

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XVIL—Half-Mile (Class I.I.}-1 C. F. Thomson, 2 J. Fiddes.

XVIII.—Half-Mile (Class III.)-1 J. H. Peters, 2 E. G. Grafton, 3 D. Stephen.

XIX.—Half-Mile (Open)-1 I. R. Spark, 2 W. O. Fiddes, 3 A. H. P. Ferguson. Time--2 mins. 171 secs.

XX.—Sack Race (Classes IV. and V.)-1 W. W. Rose, 2 J. R. Stephenson, 3 A. Walker.

XXI.—Sack Race (Class III.)-1 J. C. Rennie, 2 E. Watt, 3 C. McLeod.

XXII.—Putting the Weight (Open)-1 A. C. Spark, 2 I. R. Spark.

Distance-31 ft. 7 ins.

XXIII.—Quarter-Mile (Class II.)-1 C. F. Thomson, 2 J. Fiddes.

XXIV.—Quarter-Mile (Open)-1 W. O. Fiddes, 2 W. T. B. Joss.

Time—554 secs.

XXV.—Drop Kick (Open)-1 W. T. B. Joss, 2 R. Tough.

Distance-127 ft. 9 ins.

XXVL—Three-legged Race (Open)-1 A. Hendry and C. E. Saunders.

XXVIL—Egg-and-Spoon Race (Open)-1 F. Loke, 2 A. Hendry, 3 I. D. MacLennan.

XXVIII.—V.C. Race (Open)-1 A. Hendry, 2 W. T. B. Joss.

XXIX.-Tug-of-War—Classical v. Modern—Modern won.

XXX,—Obstacle Race (Class III.)-1 E. G. Griifton, 2 J. G. Stewart, 3 E. Watt.

XXXI.—Obstacle Race (Open)-1 A. Hendry, 2 A. H. P. Ferguson, 3 I. Cumming.

XXXII.—Tilting the Bucket (Open)-1 A. Hendry and C. E: Saunders, 2 A. E. Bruce and I. D. MacLennan.

Relay Race-1 9th Troop, 2 1st Troop.

Contributors to the Prize Fund.

We beg to acknowledge with A‘ n rinest thanks contributions from the following :—Miss Adam, Miss Anderson, Master Thomas Anderson, Mr. James Brown, Master G. C. Bulmer, Mr. Crombie, Dr. James Crombie, Mr. John Crombie, Miss E. Davidson, Mr. Charles Davidson, Mr. George Davidson, Mr. James Davidson, Mr. George Dawson, Mr. Alex. Duffus, Mr. Peter Edward, Mr. James Fiddes, Mr. George Fraser, Mr. Grant, Mr. James Gray, Captain J. Hayward, R.N., Mr. George E. Hay, Mr. John Henderson, Mr. H. Holmes, Mr. James Humphrey, Mr. Hosain, Master Gordon W. Hunter, Mrs. Kelly, Mr. John A. King, Mr. James C. Knox, Mr. George Laing, Miss M. J. Ledingham, Dr. Lister, Mr. 'John McBain, Mrs. George McBain, Mr. Angus Mackay, Miss J. A. Mackie, Mr. M. H. Mackie, Dr. Mackintosh, Master T. L. Mackintosh, Dr. McLeod, Mr. R. Macrae, Miss N. D. Maydon, Mr. George Middleton, Mr. C. R. Leslie Miller, Mr. J. M. Morrison, Mr. William Munson, Mr. Thomas Ogilvie, Mr. John Peters, Mr. J. Bentley Philip, Mr. Samuel Pope, Miss M. Reid, Mr. G. N. Ritchie, Dr. Morland Simpson, Mrs. Morland Simpson, Miss Sinclair, Mr. J. C. Souttar, Mr. Alex. Speirs, Miss B. Sutherland, Mr. Robert Tindall, Mr. A. Watt, Master Robert Williams, Mrs. Wood, Mr. R. M. Williamson, and Anonymous.

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The Swimming Sports.

The Annual Swimming Sports were held in the Corporation Baths on Friday, 30th May. There was a record turn-out of pupils and friends, over which Councillor Stewart Thomson presided.

In his opening address Councillor Stewart Thomson referred to the value of swimming as an exercise, and deplored that more facilities were not given to swimmers in Aberdeen. If the six hundred pupils of the Grammar School were to be thrown into water beyond their depth, four hundred would drown. There was, however, a large increase in the membership of the Swimming Club this year, and he looked forward to the time when every Grammar boy would be able to swim.

The first and most important item on the programme was the Rector's Cup. This was won by Taggart, no other man but Saunders getting near him. Since Taggart won the Cup last year, it was awarded to Saunders. The Junior Handicap was won by J. Rennie, a small and plucky competitor, with good speed for his size. There was some very good swimming in the Senior Handicap, which was won eventually by Taggart. Saunders was first again this year in the Neat Dive, and well deserved his success. Our old friend, the Boat Race, was conspicuous this year by its absence, but the Greasy Pole and the Blindfold Race contributed to the fun of the proceedings.

At the close, on the call of the Rector. three cheers were given Councillor Stewart Thomson for presiding.

The Committee desire to thank the staff, the friends who contributed to the prize fund, and all those who helped to make the Sports a record success, especially our indefatigable Secretary.

R. I. Maxwell.

LIST OF PRIZE WINNERS.

Rector's Cup (4 lengths)-1 D. Taggart, 2 C. Saunders, 3 I. Cumming.

Junior Handicap-1 J. Rennie, 2 W. Smart.

Beginners' Race-1 J. Benzie, 2 I). Walker.

Plunge-1 E. Wilson (35 ft. 5 ins.), 2 D. McFarlane, 3 D. Taggart.

Senior Handicap-1 D. Taggart, 2 W. Johnston, 3 R. Esslemont.

Blindfold Race-1 L. Williamson.

Object Diving-1 P. Ferguson, 2 D. Taggart.

Candle-and-Potato Race-1 J. D. Duncan, 2 L. Williamson, 3 C. Saunders.

Neat Dive-1 C. Saunders (27 points), 2 (equal) P. Ferguson and J. Rennie (26 points).

Three-legged Race-1 P. Ferguson and C. Saunders.

Learners' Race-1 W. Emm. Team Race—Modern beat Classical

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The Literary and Debating Society.

September 24th, 1913.—On this date the General Meeting of the Society was held in Room I., at 4 o'clock, for the purpose of electing office-bearers for the session. Mr. Murison, Honorary President of the Society, was in the chair. The only change on the list of Patrons is that, through death, the name of Sir George Reid, P.R.S. A., LL.D., has to be removed. The honorary officebearers were re-elected. The following were elected as acting Office-bearers :—President, Mr. I. Cumming ; Vice-Presidents, Messrs A. McBain, and I. McBain ; Secretary and Treasurer, Mr. H. G. Edwards; Committee, Messrs D. A. Davidson, F. M. F. Dawson, C. A. Dean, A. C. Hendry, and A. D. Wisely. The officials are looking forward to having a very successful session.

They have arranged for lectures from some of the most popular lecturers in the city, as will be seen from the syllabus appended :SYLLABUS. 1913.

Oct-. 17.—Debate—" Will Hydroplanes be more useful than Aero. planes in War? " Aff.—Mr. I. Cumming ; Neg.— Mr. I. McBain.

24.—Lecture--" Fools." W. Murison. Esq., M.A. 31.—Magazine Night.

Nan•. 7.—Lecture—" Life and Times of Savonarola." J. M. Morrison, Esq., M.A. 14.—Debate—" Ought we to believe in Ghosts? " Aff.—Mr. A. McBain ; Neg.—Mr. C. A. Dean.

21.—Lecture—" Archibald Simpson, and the making of Aberdeen." G. M. Fraser, Esq. 28.—Lecture—" John Keats." Rev. A. Austin Foster, M.A. Dec. 5.—Judicial Night.

12.—Impromptu Debates.

19.—Sing-Song.

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Jan. 9.—Lecture—" Literary Rambles in London " (Illustrated).

Rev. Lucking Tavener.

16.—Debate—" Should doctors be allowed to put incurable patients out of pain? " Aff.—Mr. A. D. Wisely ; Neg.--Mr. D. A. Davidson. „ 23.—Lecture—" A Climbing Holiday : Two F.P.'s in the High Alps " (Illustrated). A. Landsborough Thomson, Esq., M.A. 30.—Lecture—" Some Continental Experiences." C. Davidson, Esq., M.A. Feb. 6.—Debate—" Is town life better than country life?"

Town—Mr. F. M. F. Dawson. Country—Mr. A. C. Hendry.

13.—Lecture—" Some Electric Experiments." C. McLeod, Esq., M.A., D.Sc. „ 20.—Lecture—" John Milton ; why we don't, and why we should, read him." Rev. W. W. Reid, B.D. 27.-Impromptu Debates.

Mar. 6.—Lecture—" Mark Twain." J. C. Knox, Esq., M.A. 13.—Readings. „ 20.—Sing-Song.

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17th-October, 1913.—The meeting for this evening was held in Room I. at 7 p.m. Mr. A. McBain presided over an attendance of about fifty members. The business of the evening was a debate —" Will Hydroplanes be more useful than Aeroplanes in War? " Mr. Cumming, who spoke first, supported the affirmative, and gave a very able exposition of his views. Mr. I. McBain followed, and in an 'exceedingly well-written paper set forth his views for the negative. There was very little further discussion, and when the vote was taken, Mr. Cumming won by a large majority. Mr. Cumming then took the chair. Impromptu debates were started as a means of spending the rest of the evening, but they were not well sustained, and a " hat night" was carried. The debates. however, were poor, and there was little good discussion. The chief speakers were Mr. A. McBain, Mr. I. McBain, and Mr. Saunders. The meeting broke up at 9 o'clock.

Football Notes.

The football season is now upon us, and we depend on the School team to come out Junior Champions again this year.

Seven of last year's team are back with us—four backs and three forwards—and from the way they shape in the practices, the School team should do well this season.

School r. 1st Queen's Cross.—Played at the School on October 4th. Play commenced with a forward rush on the part of Queen's, who kept the School on their own half. But, from a fine rally by McFarlane and Hendry, Saunders managed to get over the line.

Joss converted with a beautiful kick. Again, from a forward rush, play came near Queen's line, and Hendry scored from a throw-out.

Joss again converted. Half-time, 10-0 for the School. In the second half the School were mostly on the defensive, and Joss and Ferguson relieved the pressure from time to time. At last, Queen's rushed the ball over the line, but failed to convert. Final scores. 10-3 for the School. The School are to be congratulated on their excellent beginning this season.

October 11th.—The School travelled to Montrose with fifteen men and a linesman, to play Montrose Academy. There was a strong wind blowing down and across the ground, against which the School had to play in the first half. There were a good number of Academy supporters on the touchline. In the first half the School were mostly on the defensive. Our forwards were inferior in weight, and we seldom got the ball from scrums. At last, from a rush by Macrae, McLeod ,scored. Joss failed to convert. Half-time score, 3-0. In the second half the School had the wind, and began to attack. Joss scored off a fine run, and converted himself. Then the Academy forwards rushed us up to the line and scored, but failed to convert. The School's tackling was their strong point, and won them the game. They were outclassed in the forward line, and the Academy three's had some pretty pieces of passing. The best for the School were Ferguson, Joss, and Thomson in the backs, and Bell, Macrae, and McLeod in the forwards. Final scores, 8-3 for the School.

18th October. —On this date the School played 2nd Queen's Cross in a friendly game at School. Queen's put a strong fifteen

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in the field and the School had their work cut out to win.

The School played down first half, and kept Queen's in their own half. After a few unavailing attempts, Saunders got over the line but was disallowed by the touch-judge. There were several fine passing runs by the threes and various attempts to drop the goal, but no scoring resulted. Half-time, 0-0.

Soon after the beginning of the second half Queen's made a raid on the School territory and rushed the ball over the line. The try was not converted. Then School forced Queen's back until Joss broke through and scored. This liVened up the School men, and soon Thomson scored. Then Joss got over again and, taking the kick, converted.

Shortly before the whistle went for time Thomson again scored on the touch-line. The School played a good game on the whole. The best among the backs were Joss, Hendry, and Saunders, and among the forwards, Taggart, McLeod, and Bell. Final scores, 14-3 for the School.

The 2nd XV. 18th October.—On this date 2nd School played their first fixture against 2nd Gordon's. The School pressed from the kickoff and soon Stephen touched down from a run by Reid.

The School threes were playing a magnificent game, and their passing was splendid. The School scored twice more, and at half-time the score was 14-0. The School still pressed in the second half and, except for one rush by which they scored, Gordon's were very seldom out of their own half. School scored three times in the second half, but converted only once. The backs played a good game, especially Reid, Wisely, Wright, and Sorley ; while Scott, Dean, and Daniel did good work among the forwards. Final scores, 25-5 for 2nd School.

Cricket Notes.

May 27th.—The School played Gaflac at Duthie Park. Gaflac were all out for 50. The School then went in and made 63 for five wickets (Conner, not out, 16 ; Hunter 15).

May 31st.—On this date the School 2nd XI. travelled to Cowie Park, Stonehaven, to meet Mackie's Academy. The Academybatted first and made 27. The School went to the wickets and made 37 (H. McIntosh 10, not out). Bowling for the School, A. McBain had three wickets for 3 runs, and J. McBain five wickets for 8 runs.

June 7th.—The School played Gordon Schools a return match at Duthie Park. Gordon Schools batted first and were all out for 23. The School went in and made 106 (Conner 26, Stewart 18, Hunter 17). Bowling for the School, Robson had five wickets for 9 runs, and Stewart five wickets for 7 runs.

June 10th and 11th.—The School played Mannofield XI. in an evening match at Mannofield. The School went in first and put up 122 (Saunders 24, Fiddes 18, Lumsden 16). Mannofield batted on the second night and made 159. Bowling for the School, the best was Lumsden—four wickets for 17 runs.

June 14th.—The School played the 2nd XI. The 2nds batted first and made 67 (Macfarlane 17, White 11); the School put up a

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total of 75 (Robson, not out, 28 ; J. McBain 18). Bowling for the School, Lumsden, seven wickets for 26 runs; J. McBain, three wickets for 6 runs. Bowling for 2nd XI., Lyon, five wickets for 34 runs ; Munro-, four wickets for 34 runs.

June 18th.—The School played Mr. Moyes's XI. Mr. Moyes's XI. took the wickets first and made 22. Then the School went in and put up 36. Bowling for the School, Elmslie had four wickets for 3 runs ; McBain, three wickets for 3 runs.

June 21st.—The School encountered Gordon's at King's College Grounds. Gordon's batted first and made 44. The School men were able to put up 37 only (Robson 11, J. McBain, not out, 8).

Bowling for the School, Robson had four wickets for 13 runs ; Stewart, two wickets for 6 runs ; Elmslie, four wickets for 21 runs.

June 28th.—The School travelled to Balloter to meet Monaltrie, in their last match for the season. Monaltrie went in first, and the last wicket fell for 66 (Walton 49). The School then batted, but failed to score more than 58 (J. McBain 9, Conner 9). Bowling for the School, the best was Elmslie, with seven wickets for 18 runs.

Batting Averages.

No. of Times Highest Total Innings. Not Out. Score.

Name.

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9 J. M. Mellain . .

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10 1 26 F. A. Conner .

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56 • 6.1 0. R. IF. Stewart 9 • 1 .

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12 34 5.6 W. Fiddes 1 8 18 36 5.1 A. McBain 9 3 11 24 4 0. I). Munro (Reserve) • • 3 0 4 5 1 .6 Highest score-28 by C. E. Saunders.

Total runs scored, 674 for 92 wickets ; average, 7.3 runs per wicket.

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Covers. Maidens. Runs.

Name.

Wickets.

N. K. Robson 12 . .

85 157 39 J. G. Elmalie . .

79 7 223 32 G. R. W. Stewart .

37 115 7 18 It. I. Maxwell . .

14 2 3 39 J. M. McBain . .

13.3 1 42 2 J. Lumsden . .

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8 17 4 Best bowling feat-5 for 4. by G. R. W. Stewart.

Result—Played 10 matches, won 6, lost 4.

Average.

402 6.9 6.3 13 21 4.25

The Library.

The Lending Library has now started for the session. Many new and interesting books have been purchased, of which a fyll list is given below. It is a great pity that out of so large a school as ours only forty have joined the Library ; it is hoped that a large number more will do so shortly. The librarians request that F.P.'s will kindly look over their bookshelves to see if they have inadvertently kept any library books.

Purchased from Funds--Sir A. Conan Doyle—" Micah Clarke," — The Mystery of Cloomber," " The Sign of Four," " Memories of

ABERDEEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL CRICKET CLUB 1st XI. SEASON 1913.

C. J. C. Hunter.

James Davidson, Esq. (Secretary Games Committee).

N. K. Robson J. M. McBain.

J. Lumsden.

( Secretety).

G. D. Munro.

A. McBain.

J. G. Elmslie

R. I. Maxwell.

W. Fiddes.

G. R. W. Stewart.

(Cafitain).

C. E. Saunders.

F. A. Conner.

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Sherlock Holmes," " The Return of Sherlock Holmes," "The Lost World," "The Poison Belt." P. G. Wodehouse—" The Head of Kays," — A Prefect's Uncle," " Mike," " Psmith in the City." A. E. W. Mason—" The Four Feathers," " The Broken Road." H. Seton Merriman—" In Kedar's Tents." " Q "— " Poison Island," "The Astonishing History of Troy Town."

Mark Twain--" The White Elephant." Stanley J. Weyman— " Under the Red Robe," " The Abbess of Vlaye," " Shrewsbury."

Neil Munro" The Daft Days," "Fancy Farm." Ralph. Connor —!` Black Rock." Robert M: MacDonald—" The Gold Seekers," "The Great White Chief." Baroness Orczy—" By the Gods Beloved." Cutcliffe Hyne—" The Marriage of Kettle." H. Rider Haggard—" Joan Haste," " Lysbeth." A. E. W. Mason and Andrew Lang—" Parson Kelly." William Le Queux—" The Invasion."

Presented by Mr. A. L. Scott—" Settlers and Scouts," " The Pirate Aeroplane," " The Flying Boat," " By England's Aid," " A Northumbrian in Arms," " Britain's Sea Story."

Presented by Rev, Alex. Warrack, F:P., Oxford—" Persius," edited by David Wedderburn, "opus posthumum," Rector of Aberdeen Grammar School, 1602-1640. Elzevir edition, 1664.

By James Brebner, F.P., late Rector of Harris Academy, Dundee—" The Vulgate Psalter," edited, with introduction, notes, and vocabulary, by A. 13. Macaulay and James Brebner. A scholarly work of great interest, doubly welcome as the gift of a Former Pupil.

"The New Nation" [Australia], by Percy F. Rowland; a mine of information on the island continent.

The Museum.

RECENT ADDITIONS. Presented by James Clarke, F.P.-46 flint and stone implements, flakes, and fossils, including spear and arrow-heads, some of them paleolithic ; also one bronze arrow-head, with long single barb—all from Egypt. Also specimen of the red chalky substance used by the ancient Egyptians to colour their skin.

By Peter Jamieson, Lower IV.—Piece of shale, containing three fine specimens of trilobite, from Ben Nevis coal mine, S. Alberta, Canada.

By Mr. C. R. Leslie Miller.—Dragon-fly, taken in the sea, Loch Fyne.

By Mr. R. H. Fenton, London-143 British eggs, including 1-2 honey buzzard, 1-5 grasshopper warbler, 1-4 snow bunting, 1-4 Lapland bunting—all new to our collection ; 1-2 Egyptian vulture, 1-4 black-tailed godwit, 1-2 squacco heron, 1-4 brown linnet (white eggs), etc.

By Mr. R. H. Wrigley, Clitheroe—Nests of Dartford warbler, Savi's warbler, red flycatcher, golderest.

By Ken. A. M. Tomory, F.P., Edinburgh-40 eggs (all Burmese).

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The Former Pupils' Club.

Notes.

Membership and Subscriptions.

It will be seen from the list of new Members published on another page that the Club is still increasing in numbers. There are, however, many Old Boys who have not yet enrolled, and if another large increase in membership is to be obtained before the end of the current year—on 15th April, 1914—present Members must at once forward to the Secretary the names and addresses of any F.P.'s who are likely to join the Club ; or better still, obtain from them the subscription of 276 .(or £2 2s. for life membership) and send it to the Secretary, who will acknowledge receipt direct to the new Members.

With regard to the annual subscriptions of Ordinary Members, it may be pointed out that although the Club year ends in the middle of April, subscriptions for the new year are not asked for until October. Ordinary Members' subscriptions for 1913-14 are, therefore, now due, except in the case of those who have paid since 15th April last, or who, before that date, had prepaid for a number of years. Members will greatly oblige by remitting their subscriptions at once. By so doing, they will relieve the Treasurer of the large amount of clerical work involved in sending out further notices. Ordinary Members save trouble both to themselves and to the Treasurer by paying their subscriptions in advance for a number of years. An envelope, addressed to the Treasurer, is being sent along with the Magazine to every Member whose subscription is outstanding.

Programme for 1913-14.

The arrangements for the year have been completed and will be found in the Syllabus, which is the official receipt for subscriptions. Particular attention may be drawn to the Annual Dinner, which is to be held in the Palace Hotel on Saturday 15th November, on account of the fact that it is to commemorate the jubilee of the opening of the present School buildings. It is expected that Major-General Sir J. Ronald L. Macdonald, K.C.I.E., C.B., will be the chief guest on this occasion, and it is hoped that there will be a large gathering of Old Boys from all parts of the country.

The Annual Ball is to be held as usual in the Music Hall Buildings, on 26th December. Notice of it will not be sent to Members resident outside Aberdeen, but full information will be forwarded by the Secretary on receipt of a post card from any Member who may possibly be able to be present.

The Dramatic Section is to produce Conan Doyle's great play, " The Speckled Band " on 11th, 12th, and 13th December, and, no doubt, will maintain its reputation in this ambitious effort.

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" Head of the School " Trophy.

The Executive has decided to present to the School a trophy to be held by the boy who is judged to be the most deserving in respect of the work, the games, and the social life of the School.

Acting in conjunction with the Rector, the Committee is preparing, a scheme whereby marks will be awarded in varied proportion under these three heads. The trophy will be held for one year, and the winner will receive a small memento. The Executive is sure that many Old Boys will be prepared to assist in obtaining a handsome trophy for this purpose. Subscriptions, which will be acknowledged in the Magazine, should be sent to the Treasurer.

Annual Summer Meeting.

The Summer Meeting was again held at Cruden Bay on Saturday, 21st June, and during the week-end some 60 members of the Club were present. In the Golf Competition the first Handicap Stroke Prize was won by P. B. Simpson, with D. M. Kilgour second, and in the Bogey Competition the first prize was won by J. T. Ogilvie and the second by R. Verel. In addition to golfers there was a considerable number of members of the Motor Section present, and also a few members who intended to play tennis, but were, unfortunately, prevented by the coldness of the weather. It was gratifying to find that several of the Masters of the School were present, as they are always welcome at Club meetings.

The Winter Sections.

By the time the Magazine reaches Members of the Club, these Sections will 13:l in full swing. All of them will be very glad to welcome new players, and it may be suggested that the health of many Members would be benefited by their taking up some winter pastime. On another page will be found the names of the Secretaries of the various Sections, who will supply full information to applicants. It may be added that the Badminton Section plays twice a week—on Mondays and Wednesdays—from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., in the Aberdeen Dairy Company's excellent hall.

Situations for Old Boys.

It is very gratifying to report that further situations have been obtained by Old Boys through the medium of the Club. Those who wish situations, or who have situations vacant, should apply to the Secretary. At the present time there are a number of vacancies in a large commercial office. Applicants must have had at least four years' experience of commercial work, and must not be more than 24 years of age.

" Head of the School " Trophy.

The following subscription has been received, and the Treasurer will be glad to acknowledge receipt of further donations :— . £1 1 0 F. H. Fraser, Ceylon . . . .

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List of New Members.

Life Members.

Captain Archer I. Fortescue (1892-97), R.A.M.C., Benares, India.

David H. Halliday (1904.07), Anglo-Chilian and Nitrate Railway Co., Tocopilla, Chile.

John Keith Sellar (1910-12), 116 John Street, Aberdeen.

Andrew Laing (1871-74), Union Bank of Australia, Limited, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Alex. Adamson Laing (1877-79), Royal Bank of Australia, Limited, Melbourne.

Robert Copland (1902-07), Touramulla Estate, Sultan's Battery P.O., Wynaad, Malabar, South India.

James Fordyce Mackenzie (1881-83), 19 East 24th Street, New York, U. S. A. Graeme G. Sutherland (1903-09), Papaikou, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.

Kbek Law (1904-08), 15 Syed Ali Road, Singapore.

Go John R. Esson (1893-97), 39 Avenida Central, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Thomas Roy (1879-84), Government Railway Engineer, Nyassaland, Blantyre, British Central Africa.

James D. Smart (1874.77), c/o Messrs. Butler, Nephew & Co., Oporto, Portugal.

Wm. E. G. Kilgour (1888.97), c/o Postmaster, Kaman-um, Singapore.

Captain Alex. M. Rose, R.A.M.C. (1883-94), 24 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen.

Stanley N. Grant (1902-13), Burnieboozle House, Hazelhead, Aberdeen.

Ordinary Members.

Win. Allan (1904-?), 18 Albury Road, Aberdeen.

David Macbeth (1884-85). Cawnpore, India.

J. II. Fraser, M.A. (1889.95), High School, Durban, Natal.

John Garden (1886-94), 61 Cairnfield Place, Aberdeen.

Ian M. Morrison (1910.11), 13 Bentinck Street, Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Geo. M. Wood (1880-82), 27 South Street, Halifax, Canada.

John Livingstone (1906.08), 139 Blenheim Place, Aberdeen.

Major P. B. Sangster (18£34-88), 2nd Lancers, Ferozepore. Punjab, India.

Arthur W. Gill (1909.13), 141 Duthie Terrace, Aberdeen.

Francis S. Anderson (1909.12), Estates Office, Strathdon.

Edwin Middleton (1882-86), c/o Public Works Department, Pretoria, South Africa.

John M. McBain (1903-13), 12 Rubislaw Den North, Aberdeen.

Robert M. Easton (1894-1904), I.M.S., 111 Hamilton Place, Aberdeen.

Alex. Law (1890-92), 7 Stinnyside Walk, Aberdeen.

James H. Wallace (1888-?), 32 Brunswick Square, London, W.C. David E. Stephen (1900.07), 42 Great Western Road, Aberdeen.

Do. George Stephen (1900-07),

Dr. Robert W. Cruickshank (1881-84), The Shrubbery, Eynsham, Oxon.

Eric D. McDonald (1909-13), 81 Westburn Road, Aberdeen.

Alex. Mathewson (1883.87), 2 Glebe Terrace, Corstorphine, Edinburgh.

Wallace Troup (1907.12), 4 Hilton Street, Aberdeen.

Arthur W. Littlejohn (1872.75), Rangers Valley, Dundee, N.S.W. Duncan H. Campbell (1868-69), 27 King Street, Aberdeen.

Alex. Murray (1903.13), 16 Albert Terrace, Aberdeen.

Herbert A. Eccles (1905.13), 21 Rubislaw Terrace, Aberdeen.

Maurice J. S. Reid (1909.13), 21 St. Swithin Street, Aberdeen.

Arthur M. Barron (1910-13), Newton of Pitfodels.

Harcourt J. Lawrence (1901-04), Khowang Tea Estate, Khowang P.O., Upper Assam, India.

Alex. Ritchie (1907.13), 5 Devanha Terrace, Aberdeen.

James Hutcheon (1910.13), 34 Rubislaw Den South, Aberdeen.

George R. Hill (1911.13), The Links, Peterhead.

Wm. H. G. Rally (1889-94 Jaboka, Sonari, P.O., Assam.

James Patterson (1£06.12), 76 Beaconsfield Place, Aberdeen.

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Aberdeen Gram mar School Magazine.

The Motor Section.

This Section held its second week-end tour from 20th to 22nd September last. Though not so strenuous as the spring tour, it was in its way equally enjoyable. Since the last tour there were —on paper—two reliability trials, but these seem to have lost interest now. This can hardly be attributed to the reliability of the average machine after a few months' amateur ownership and tuning up.

A start for this week-end was made from a well-known landmark in Queen's Road on the Saturday afternoon, Dunkeld being the night's destination. The following started :—Bisset and Ledingham, 3/ h.p. Scott and side car;, Dunn and Bruce, 3/ h.p.

Scott and side car ; Gillies and Milne, 8 h.p. Matchless and side car; Barron, 3 h.p. B.S.A. ; Cook, 2i h.p. Enfield; Edwards, 3 h.p. Triumph; W. Glegg, 5 h.p. Hazlewood ; R. Glegg, 4 h.p.

Twin Matchless • Harper, 21 h.p. Singer; Macdonald, 3 h.p. T.T. Triumph.; and Williamson, 3 h.p. Rudge.

The run was uneventful to Dunkeld, and everyone arrived in good time at Fisher's Hotel there. Two of the party thought they would have time to inspect the possibilities of Pitlochry and return in time for dinner, but sadly miscalculated things and had a satisfactory, if somewhat fragmentary, repast served by an ancient retainer. A watchful eye, however, was kept on them during the remainder of the run, with the result that they did not again take the " wrong turning," and were always present at roll-call.

Early next morning the beat of a well-tuned Triumph announced the arrival of the Hon. Secretary from Aberdeen. Tempers must have been a little raw, as his reception was distinctly mixed, and by the time he had his mount in what was dignified by the name of " the garage," the yard was strewn with tongs and other useful -if not ornamental—domestic articles, making the garage look more jerry-built than ever.

Eventually the party dressed itself, had breakfast, crawled to Birnam and, having filled up with petrol and oil, took the road to Amulree under perfect conditions. The run to the head of Loch Earn was uneventful, the weather superb, and the views magnificent. After lunch at Lochearnhead, Glen Ogle was successfully tackled, and the party ran along Loch Tay to Kenmore— weather magnificent, roads by no means so. At Kenmore the leading Scott jibbed, so the whole party halted for tea, after which —bar punctures—the run through Aberfeldy to Dunkeld was uneventful. The Section Secretary left again that night for Aber deen, doing 270 miles in the day—a nice little jaunt.

Next morning the party—minus Barron, who had a pressing engagement in Edinburgh—made for Blairgowrie by various routes. Here Harper left us, the Singer having a nasty ' cough," and the rest made for the Shiel Inn, where a Scott again jibbed.

After a short halt, the party left for the Devil's Elbow and Braemar. Everyone, except the single-geared machines, took the Elbow in style—an improvement on the last occasion on which the Club tackled it. Above the Elbow the owner of one of the Scotts lent interest to the proceedings by an endeavour to emulate Mons.

Continued on page 71.

MOTOR SECTION AT LOCHEARNHEAD, 21st September, 1913.

Bath Row—C. Harper, J. D. Cook.

Middle Raw—R. Glegg, D. Edwards, J. A. Dunn.

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Pegoud, in driving his cycle backwards and upside down. However there are some things even the Scott will not do. Apart from this experiment, the run to Braemar was accomplished in style, and lunch was taken at the Fife Arms.

A start down Deeside was made about 4 p.m., with " Gipsy Love " as objective, and all went well till Cambus O'May, where " Mons. Pegoud " put the stopper on by breaking another record —high-gear chain and driving chain simultaneously. With the assistance of the rear guard these were eventually repaired, and Aboyne reached in time for dinner, " Gipsy Love" getting the go-bye. After dinner the run home was uneventful, save for a Rudge puncture a few miles out of Aberdeen.

The success of this tour, following on the magnificent spring one, has amply justified the existence of the Section. It is hoped to do something more ambitious next year—possibly a week in England or in the North. In addition to the official programme, several Section week-end jaunts to Cruden Bay, Invereye, etc., have been most successfully and enjoyably carried out.

One of the most sporting mounts in Aberdeen—a racing 4 New Imperial, with an exhaust reminiscent of Sousa's " March of the Elephants "—has just been added to the Section stud.

Exhibitions are promised by the enterprising owner in mud-gliding during the winter.

10 M.P.H.

Club Office=Bearers-1913=1914• Hon. President—H. F. NI ORLAND SIMPSON, M.A., LL.D. President—JAMES ESSLEMONT (1875-80).

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

Secretary and Treasurer— JAMES WM. MILNE, C.A., 154 Union Street, Aberdeen.

Committee— W. AITKEN. W. G. CRAIGEN, M.A., LL.B. ALEX. DAVIDSON. J. C. DUFFUS, " M.A. J. B. GILLIES, B.L.

TALBERT HELMRICH. A. M. JOHNSTON. W. KEITH LEASK, M.A. D. R. MACDONALD. GEORGE A. SMITH. A. G. NICOL SMITH

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Sectional Office-Bearers.

Rugby Football Club-1st X V.—Captain, Douglas M. W. Leith; Vice-Captain, J. Ellis ; Secretary, R. M. Ledingham, 96 Queen's Road; Treasurer, A. McK. Johnston, 71 Fountainhall Road; Committee, G. A. Ledingham, J. Simpson, A. G. McNeill, S. P. McKenzie, and A. D. Spark. 2nd XV.—Captain, W. M. Dawson; Vice-Captain, A. Johnstone ; Secretary, C. McKenzie, Woodend, 136 King's Gate ; Committee, A. Halley, A. Williamson, W. Elmslie, D. M. Bisset, and A. H. Ferguson.

Hockey Section—Captain, Robert Forgan ; Vice-Captain, A. J. Hawes; Secretary, A. L. Thomson, Castleton House, Chanonry, Old Aberdeen ('phone, 526 ; telegrams, "Thomson, Chanonry, Aberdeen ") ; Treasurer, G. Dawson, 21 Fonthill Terrace. 2nd XI. —Captain, G. J. Key ; Vice-Captain, F. D. Ross-Keyt ; Secretary, W. Main, 44 Union Grove. Representative to N.D.H.A., E. Main; representative to F.P. Executive, A. L. Thomson. 1st XI. Selection Committee—Captain, Vice-Captain, and H. Mortimer.

2nd XI. Selection Committee—Captain, 2nd XI. Captain, and 2nd XI. Vice-Captain. General Committee—Captain, Vice-Captain, Secretary, Treasurer, and 2nd XI. Captain.

Badminton Section—Captain, C. J. Davidson ; Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Alfred Smith, 191 Union Street ; Committee, J. D. Cook, D. H. W. Williamson, and Charles Webster.

Motor Section—Captain, J. B. Gillies ; Joint Conveners, G. A. Ledingham and James Ellis ; Secretary and Treasurer, D. R. Macdonald, 98 Queen's Road; Committee, J. Brown, J. E. Rae, W. Bisset, and W. Barron.

Dramatic Section—A. M. Johnston, P. B. Simpson, W. G. Craigen, G. G. Nicol, and J. H. N. Oraigen (Convener), 40 Carden Place.

London Section—Secretary, T. J. Wilson, C.A., 59 Old Bailey,

London, E.C.

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Club Evenings Committee—T. Helmrich, A. Davidson, W. Aitken, J. B. Gillies, and Hon. Assistant Secretary.

Dinner Committee—C. J. Davidson, W. G. Craigen, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, and Hon. Assistant Secretary.

Ball Committee—E. W. H. Brander, J. C. Duffus, J. C. Lyon, Charles Peterkin, A. M. Wilson, S. M. Chrystall, and W. G. Oraigen (Hon. Secretary), 210 Union Street. " Aberdeen Grammar School Magazine " Committee—Theodore Watt (Convener), Charles Davidson, Wm. Keith Leask.

NOTICE.— Articles, letters, notes, etc., intended for the February, 1914, issue:of the "Magazine" should be sent, not later than 31st January, to Mr. Theodore Watt, 206 Mid Stocket Road, Aberdeen.

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