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CONTENTS.

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P age Foreword

Editorial

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Page The Value of Physical T raining

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Ac know ledgemen ts

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Our Debt to Pioneers of Electricity

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Bad F orm

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The Go vern or Replies

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An O\·erl and Trip to K a ietcur F all

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Ituni

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On Dit

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The Poet's Corner

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School Officials (1947- ' 48)

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The y ear in Retrospect

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News of Ou r B oys-Past and Preserit

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Valete

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Salvete

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P rize List ('45 -'46)

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House Notes

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Cricket Notes

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Football Notes

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A Young Old Boy Rememb ers

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Hockey Notes

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The Barbados Tou r

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Tab le Tennis Notes

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H ow lers

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The Swimming Gala

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Famous Sayings

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The Annual Athleti c Sports

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The Notorious ·'V.B. "

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Athletic Cha racters ..

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Cadet Notes

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The Literary and Dramatic Society

School Records (Athletics)

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Literary a nd Dramatic

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Mr. E. 0. Pilgrim-A Tribute ..

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Scientific Amusements

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Recollections

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Th e "Sixth" at Roll Call

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Alma Mater (1952)

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Resu lts- Athletic Sports(1948)

{ h e Editors think out loud

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T~e Editor of the School Magazine is on my track again asking me to write the Foreword to yet another number. It seems no time since I wrote f~r the last number, but that is probably accounted for by the fact that r_n the meantime I have be. en away to England where I spent a very enJoyable and busy four and a half months.

I greatly appreci~te M_ r. Beckles' thoughtful kindness in sending me a cable when th L 1 t C . . e egrs ~ i~e ouncil finally approved of the expenditure i equrred for the new burldmg for Queen's, and it certainly was a further ' Joy to learn a little later on that work had actu I] b Thomas Land . a y een sta_rted at the , ~ site. To-day, we have a forest of concrete supportincrcolumns marking the outline of the new building M th . . "' . . . . ay e remammcr maJ01 port10n of the work proceed at the same rate ' Th o in th b - . · e sooner we are e new UI 11 c mg the better for all concerned - b th M t f . o as ers and boys r Tho . se o you wno have seen the model of the buildi'n in the Museum must have marvelled at the pa· t k' . .g d ms a mg care with which it wa ma e, and ~lso must have sighed for the day when you would find vour~ selves walking about the various rooms and corridors.

• One event d uring my leave in Lond I . h d ti l on must ment10n to you I a .1e p easure of meeting fourteen Old Boys of th S l . stu~ly'.ng there for various professions. It wa; most i1: .c 10_01 who are their impressions of life in England and most gratif in te1 ; .sting to he~r rnterest in the School was so keen "Wh t b y g to md that their . . . a a out the new school b ·11· .is it really going up at last?" - was th f . . u1 c mg, . · e irst question I had t I t is good to know that 0 .B.'s are holdincr th . . . o answer. "' en own so well m London. .

Every success to this issue of the Magazine !

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Scarce noticed , months drift past, the Spring term returns and the time comes round again for another issue of the Annual Magazine.

With the example set last year before us, and encouraged by letters and cards from our Old Boys abroad, we determined not only to maintain past standards, but also, as far as we could, to improve upon them.

Our school-mates, with some p~odding, rose to the occasion. Never have we received so many contribµtions and our major difficulty has been not to secure material as has so often been the Cclse, but to select the .small proportion we required. We found it possible to accept only one in five of the poems sent in to us, and the final choice had to be made not only on quality but on variety, (much affection was lavished on nature), and in such a way as to secu re reasonably "equal representation" throughout the forms. The enthusiasm evinced by the Lower School has been very heartening, though many of them discovered that at present "their reach exceeds their. grasp.'' Their efforts. however , augur well for the future. To the many who will search in Yain for their con, tributions in these pages, we offer our sincere regrets. Space has been the deciding factor and we urge them not to be discouraged but to try again next year. It was with sorrow that we turned down so many manu3cripts, but in nearly every case the author has shown great promise and should consider any temporary setback as an argument for efforts at improvement.

P roducing a bigger magazine, with a harder cover and more photoJraphs, has brought on increased responsibilities and we are grateful to the many who have laboured diligently in the Research section.

We are fortunate in being able to write the Jirst Editorial 111 eight / ears not overshadowed by war and its immediate aftermath. We are dlled with a strong faith in the future and we expect nothing but the Lest in the ninety-six years before Queen's celebrates her next centenary.

Cverywhere there are signs of improvement. Our new film projector is in full operation and film shows are fast becoming an integral part of :he school's acti,·ities.

The time is drawing near when we shall depart from this old building Jnd enter the one desi gned especially for us. In it we look forward to .1 new and bri ghter era.

Each year ,,·c must express our gratitude to our publishers, the Argosy We must express special thanks this year to Mr. Heard of the P.\V.D . who willingly spent half an afternoon g ivin g us hun grily awaited information about the new building, the foundations of which are risin g at Longden Park. Our Co., Ltd., for their kind co-operation and unfailing efficiency.

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thanks are also given to Mr. William Phang (still "Chubby" to us), ,~ho supplied us with the fine portrait of our retired Deputy Principal, and who as Head Prefect served also on the Magazine Committee. We desire, too,, to express our thanks to our Judge, Mr. Smith, for useful criticisms and Eidvice. We are grateful to him for his efforts not only in his official 2apacity but also in whipping up interest in the magazine throughout the forms.

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We have been somewhat hampered by the necessity of revising and. rewriting many of our note contributions, but this task has been very much lightened by the harmony and cheerful co-operation of the Magazine ,taff. The degree of accord was ·remarkable; and the disolvin g of this partnership, so pleasant and we hope so fruitful , has been the function hardest to perform.

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In closing, we would like to express our hope that our readers will 2njoy going through these pages and to wish our successors all the pleasure we have received in the privileged task of compiling this i~sue.

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Sthool Officials, (lD-!7 -8) Second Master:

Principal:

Mr. H. A. M. BECKLES, B .A ., (Hons.)

Capt. H. NOBBS, M.Sc. F .R.I.C.

Senior Masters: Messrs. J . H. BEVIS, B.Sc. (Hons); N. E . CAMERON, M.A. Temporary Master : Mr. E . 0 . PILGRIM, B .Sc. (Hons.)

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Masters: Messrs. H. V. TAITT, M.A.; A. G. A. LARTHE, B.A . (Hens .); D. A. SMITH M.A. (H on s) and K. N . MAUDSLEY, B.A., and G. R. RAWLINS. B.Sc., B.A. Junior Masters: Mcs£ rs. J . J . NILES, B.A. ; CHUNILALL. B.A.; C. I. DRAYTON ; J . N. CHUNG; C. E . BARKER. Actir:1g Junior Masters:

Messrs. A. P. B. RICHMOND, B.A. ; H. 0 . E . BARKER. B. A.: T. 13. E. RICHMOND. Miss C. E. PETERKIN. B.A .

Acting Junior Mistress:

Preparatory Form Mistress:

Miss L. DOLPHIN. L .R.A.'.\I.

Mr. W. H. SMITH.

LabO'ratory Assistant:

Prefects:

H. PERSAUD:

Head Prefect and Capt. of School: Vice-Capt. of School:

J. W. WHITTINGHAJ\1.

D. A. CARRINGTON.

P. A. BACCHUS (Capt.), T. F. K. LEE

PERCIVAL HOUSE "A" ' : RALEIGH HOUSE ''B"' :

I. R. KING (Capt.) , R. E. JACKSON. C. S. CHABROL, M. A. CAMERON, W. A . FUNG-A -LING.

AUSTIN HOUSE ··c--: DURBAN HOUSE " D".:

J. W. WHITTINGHAM (Cap l. ), F. A. NOEL. R. L. EDWATIDS (Capt.), M. A. FRASER.

P I LGRIM HOUSE "'E"' : R. J ONAS (CapU, B. A. N. COLLINS. D. C. PANDA Y, K. F. S . KING, D. G. SMALL. WESTON HOUSE .. F .. :

D. A. CARRINGTON (Capt.). L. TI. LALA. P. FORBES, R. N. A. Da SILVA, N. F. SKEETE. R. M . LALL.

Captain of Cricket Captain of Football Captain of Hockey

B. H. Pairaudeau H . I. Le al

C . D.Phang

Captain of Athl etics Vic e- Cap tain of Cricket

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MAGAZINE STAFF. Editors: Judge:

B . A. N. Collins, K. F. S. Kin g.

Mr. D. A. Smith.

Magazine Committee:

R. L. Edwards, F . A. Noel, D. C. Panclay, N. F. Skee le.

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'' ~:.L1he ·year in Retrospect."

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. ur standard of cricket staggered into the depths of the examinat10n results, o d batsman Considering the good even though we had lost only o1C1e. g~ot our col{apse . in the Semi-final scores Pr·oduced in the House nc e ' of the J aco b Cup is most inexcusable.

luck for we lost a half dozen of our The Football XI had worse ed to keep the flag flying, play I do not propose to camouflage my opinion of our last school year best . players ..

We ~1evedrtht~lessk;;::g of the old XI. The school team Except for the performances of a few individual boys, this year has bee · . 1 revolving a1oun e s d rather indifferent. mam y Dias . S em1. f'm al--we appear: to be popular with the go s. won the

It is perhaps an excuse to say that with the number of chan ges in th Despite the lack of interest b'y the rest of the school, our hockey staff, work had to suffer. To those not directly concerned it must appear . . a . excellent results . It is well to remember that we are striking that despite the acute shortage of Masters, such great credit was . team is turnmb m If more interest were shov,m we would stand reflected on the school in the examinations during the last year of war' rated first class at hock.ey.

At ·ate the Games Club decided d To 1 to wm the cup. any r ' and the first year of peace. This year, only the sixth form, and the Arts in a goo pos1 I J • Th ost deserving of those who received ard Hockey colours. e m I t th section at that, brought real credit to the school. The fifth m~rely turned in aw . . e recogmt10n was H . B · Ed"g hill , who has been a tower of stren gt 1 o a better-than standard performance which w.il! not howev~r, outlive thel to publication of this Magazine. Once again, a~ appears to _b e usual, we side in past years. produced a Guiana Scholar; this time a record one, F. R. Wills. Th/ memory of his achievement of three distinctions in the Higher Schoo · .,vear . Despite . stricter Th Athletic Sports was a great success th is .

Certificate wilJ live longer than he. Collins and Phang bq>th achieved . e ·mprovement l ong nee d e d ' more records were broken this scholarship standard. The latter has been awarded a Victory Scholarship. starting, a~ \h last two This is a clear indication that the standard of for a Civil En gineering degree, the course of study to be undertaken at the ;:1:~~:i~a:b~~ty ~s rising f~ster than before. Austin House won the shield, University of London. closely followed by Weston.

Our sadly over-worked Principal went on leave during the year, leaving the schoo.b in the hands of Mr. Beckles, who did his job very well; Juring his tenure the present uni form (white shirt and khaki pants) was introduced . If it had been imagined that with Capt. Nobbs away the time nad arrived for frolic and games, the school soon realised that the authority .vhich it periodically tries to flout is a solid force.

Last summer twenty-four boys with t\"'O Masters in charge went 011 tour of Barbados as a return for a similar tour which had been made oy Barbad ian schoolboys in August, 1946. Though its main object was to engage the Barbadian schoolboys at games, it was also to act as an 2ducationa l and goodwill tour; high accounts are given of Barbadian hos.,Ji tali ty. .l

In the last season our cricket team did ,·ery well in the Wi ght and Northcote Cup Competitions: Kin g and Ed ghill scored centuries, while Pairaucleau made 216 not out to establish a new individual school record.

When we lost some of our first eleven play ers last year with the publication

. The Scouts and Cadets are suffering from a lack of gener~l _intere~~ throughout the school, and, apparently, a lack of keenness .w1thm theu respective ranks. That is to be regretted as both the bodies serve an excellent purpose.

The Literan· and Dramatic Society h ave reported excellent progress in the last year: and widespread interest is being evmced tl~roughou\ the senior school. The mem b ers s h ou Id ' however ' rostram ~ their enthusiasm on occasions.

0 ne 1as t wo1·d . The onlv ., way. one can I b hard work-not just a little p ay comes y consc1ent10us wor·k a· t th a t . Tl1ough it mav J · · faith in one's own ideas is necessary and we the job.

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achieve success in. work and work, but . a . lot of work l · . and It often entail Jeers anc msu . s, must always go through with

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NOTABLE DEPARTURES

Each year moi·e and m ore boys of Q ueen' . . . f • selves in all parts of th e worl I d . s College dist 111 gu1sh them. CARTER M w (1940-47) : School Certificate, 1945 ; Exemption from so in the past year we extendco, anh part·~icularly to those who have done Lond~n Matriculation· Q.C. Scholar; School Prefect, 1946; Capta in of M . ' ur ear 1es t congratulat · ' · · E essrs. Talhm, L. R. Man-Son-Hin and H _ _ wns. .. .

D'Urban House 1946; London Higher School Certificate 1947; xDentists. g. o a Shu, on quahfymg as emption from Inter-B.A. .

Messrs. W. A. Phang and s s N .

DRA YTO.N H A (1943-47) · School Certificate, 1944, Ex empt10n from Scholarships. · · arallle, on being awarded Engineering Londo~ M~tri~ulation; Q·.c. Scholar, January 1945; School Prefec t, 1945· London Higher School Certificate, 1947, Exemptions from Mr. R. H . A. Bu tscher on b · ' emg P1aced on the H , . and City Colleges, Manhattan. onours ro 1ls of Rhodes• Inter-B.Sc. and First Medical Exam.

Mr. C. I. Dra ·yton , on bei·ng awar d ed a Col · l D EDGHILL , , H · B · (1935-47) : School Certificate, 1944 ; School Prefect 1945; . fare Scholarship to obta 111 · 11 . BS oma evelopment and Wel· Cricket Colours Football Colours, Captain of H ockey, 1946; Cap tam 1s c degree ' · 946 M r. B. 0. Adams BA LL B .' . · · of Austin House 1946 · Head Prefect and Captam of the School 1 ; M 1.· C · A. W11liams, · · ' .on., obtaini.n . . ·, onthe ga 111111 . · London Higher · ' ' Certificate, · · P nze, · 1947.

N g the BC · ·L · (H. ons. ) , Oxford.

School 1947; QC . . S emor Mr. W. H . L. Allsopp on 0 bt · g_ uffield Scholarslup.

FUNG-A-FAT A. G. E. (1944-47) : Govt. Junior Scholar; School Prefect, 111 · ' . . · · M r. J . R. Ramsammy' on b ·a 111 b° a • scholarship t 0 s t u d Y Fishery.

1945·1 London Higher School Cert1f1cate, 1946; Qualified for ExempBoys' School. · elllg appointed to th e S taff of the Grenada tion from Inter-B.Sc. and First Medical Exam., 1947.

Mr. A. V. Wan-Ping, on receivin rr an Aa . lt KAWALL, L . M. R. (1939 -47) : Govt. County Scholai . 1939 ; School University. b b ncu ural Scholarship to Mc Gill Certificate, 1944; Exemption from London Matriculation; School Mr . R . M . Nicholso n, on o b tain ing a scholar h .

Prefect, 1945,· London Higher School Examin ation, 1947, Exemption .. to study Spanish and Fr h s ip to Colombia Uni\'ersity from Inter-B.A. Mr. J . H. P a ul, B.Sc., on obta~~~n~ his MSc LEU, P. E. (1935-47) : Queen's College Junior Exhibitioner 1939; School an A.R.I.C. · · (Mc Gill) and bein g elected Certificate , 1944; School Prefect, 1945; Captain of Raleigh House, 1946; Dr. P. S. J aikaran, L'Cpl. Cadet Corps. on obtaining his M.R.C.0.G. (En g ) PHANG, W. A. (1940-47) : School Certificate, 1945, Exemption from Mr. E. G. Woolford Kc . ·· London Matriculation; Q.C. Scholar, 1946; School Prefect, 1946; Sgt. Mr M . ' . ., on be111g knigh ted. · . P ollard, on captaining th BG , Cadet Corps. Captain of Percival House, 1946 ; London Higher School Mr. B. B. Mc G G k · e · · Football team in November l Certificate, 1947 ; Exemption from Inter En gineering ; Guiana Scholar. as Ill, on representin,,. t] w t I . · • , 2nd Test Matches against the M.C.C~ le es nd1es in the 1st and t ship standard, placed third on list; H ead Prefect and Captain of the 'J he Hons. C. J agan and D p D b . . . .

School, September, 1947.

Council. · · e idm on obtarnmg seats in the Legislative POLLARD, B. I. T. (1940-47) : Govt. County Scholar 1940 ; School CertiThe Hon. C. V. Wight, on bein ,,. made D , . . ) ficate, 1945; Exemption from London Matriculation; School Prefect, 0 eput) Piesident of the L egislat iv e 1946; London Higher School Certificate, 1947; Exemption from In terCouncil.

Mr. 0 S WirJht O b · B.A. Mr K. Mb s' n emg awarded the M.B.E. RAMP L H HAL, S. S. (1944-47) : School Prefect, 1945; ondon igher School · · · an- on-Hmg on obtaining B S E F. W E Case BA · c., ng. (Mc Gill) Certificate, 1946; Editor of Queen·s College Magazine, 1946-47 ; Quali·. , · . ·,. on completing his M.A. · F · R . · Wills, o n obtain ing th G . fied for Exemption from Inter-B.A. and Inter-B.Sc. 1947.

B . A . N . c o11'ms and vV. ~ A. Phanrr e uianese RAMSAMMY, J. R. (1943-47) : Govt. Junior Scholar, 1943; School Certificon reScholarship l. ' 1947 . ate, 1944; Exemption :from London Mati·iculation; School Prefect, D. H. P airaud eau for outstan 1· b, ac 1mg the Scholarship standard 1' r · c c mg performance · . . . · 1945; London Hi gher School Certificate 1946; Lond on Highe:· School . . L~w-a-Chee on winning th~ 1947 p . . agarnst Jamaica 111 Oclo ber. ~O) s who acqu itt ed themselv . e1c1va_l Scholarship anc1 to all the Certificate 1947; Qualified for Exemption from Inter-B.Sc. and First lVIedical Exam.

Mr. i:ig~e~nd Oxford Camb rid rrc c1cf1ooo~rt1:r~ly in both the London I . D. ow on bein g awarcl -d CD e1 i 1cat.es.

SMITH, R. C. (1940-47) : Govt. County Scholar, 1940; School Certificate, I 1,Ir. C. E. Barker on b,,·e ;:i • & \V. Scholarship in F'orest n· 1945; Exemption from London Matriculation; School Prefect , 1946; "mg awarded. a C.D & W S h l . . . .. . . c o ai ship 111 Science.

Captain of Pilgrim House, 1946; London Higher School Certificate, 1947; Exemption from Inter-B.A.

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PRIZE LIST 19-!5-JG.

TULLOCH, C . 0. (1944-47) : Berbice High School Scholar, J anuary 1945, · School Prefect, 1945; Captain of Weston House, 1945-47; London Higher School Certificate, 1947; Exemption from Inter-B.A. WILLS, F. R. (1940-47) : Govt. County Scholar, 1940; School Certificate, 1945; E xemption from London Matriculation; Percival Exhibitioner· pREP. FORM:- .

1st Pnze 1945; Candidate for the B.G. Scholarship 1946-(Placed third in order 2nd of merit with distinctions in Latin. and Pure Mathematics); School 3rd Prefect 1946; Captain of Cricket 1946 ; London Higher School Cer tificate, 1947 (Distinctions in Lat in, Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathe- .

FORM I : matics); Guiana Scholar 1947 . . · 1st Prize OTHER DEPARTURES 2nd 3rd A. Abdul (Govt. County Scholar, School Cert.); R. S. Boodhoo; D. R. Broomes (Govt. Junior S cholar, School Cert., Matric., London Higher.

School Cert.); N. E. Burrowes; E. N. Chin (School Cert. ); A. G. Delph FORM II a :1st P rize (School Cert., Football Colours, Athletic Colours, Senior Champion, 1947) ; 2nd L. G . Denn ison (School Cert.) ; F. G . De Souza; M. A. R. Dummett (School 3rd Cert.); W. A. Du mmett (School Cert.); C. F. Ellis (Govt. Couilty Scholar, School Cert.); D. G. E velyn (School Cert.); G. F. Fraser (Govt. County FORM Ilb :1st P rize Scholar; School Cert., Matric., L .cp l. Cadet .Corps); C. A. Gill (Govt 2nd County Scholar, School Cert.) ; A. H asan (G ovt. County Scholar, School · 3rd Cert.); T. F. Henry (G ovt. County Scholar); G. R. Jacob; N. I . Ja'p ki (Govt County Scholar, Schoo l Cert.); N . S . J ohn (Govt. County Scho1ar), K. C. FORM II c :Johnson; V. C. J ohnson; D. A. Kissoon (Govt. County Sch olar, School Cert., 1st P rize Matric., School Prefect L.cpl. Cadets); G. I. Leandro; P . E . Matthews 2nd (School Cert., Matric.,); I. G. Mc Watt; B. B. Mook-Sang (Berbice Schola r, 3rd School Prefect); C. R. Nicole (School Cert., Matric.); P . M. Nobbs (Q.C .

Scholar , School Cert. , M atric ., Cpl. Cadet Corps); J . A. C. Ouckama; A . J. , FORM IU a:Pugsley; R. E. Pugsley; I. S. Savory (School Cert.); W. H. Skerrett; M. ·B. l st Prize Smcllie; R. E. Smellie; U. V. St. Hill (Methodist Scholar, School Cert.) ; H. 2nd 3 rd R. Taitt (School Cert.); C. M. Th orne (School Cert., Matric ., School Prefect, L.cpl. Cadet Corps); R. B. Van Sertima; R. V. W on g (School Cert.) ; FORM lli b:A. B . Winter (Schoo l Cert., Cpl. Cadet Corps); I . E. Yin g.

SALVET E 1947.

V. A. Agrippa; J . V. Archer; K. 0 . E. Barrow; D. E. Burnett; R. A. Collins; J . E. W. Crosse; St. G. I. B: Croose; M. I. N. Dash; W. C. A. Dennison; K. L. D ennison; L. P. Detterin g ; J . A. D . Downes; R. B . Fields; L. H. F olkard ; G. C. Fraser; G. A. Fraser; I. C. L . Goring ; J . A. P. Haly; J. W. H older; B. B . H op e ; C. A. John; A. Jones; R. R. Kam; P. N. Kin g ; C. E. K in g; R. A . Lee ; W. L. Lee ; A. R. A. Lee; N. A. Mc Connell; C. H . Mc Gowan; H. I. Mc Kenzie; A. Majeed; A . C. Mekdeci ; R. N. V. S. Misir ; H. E. N assy; G. S. L. Pa y ne; R. I. Phillips; N. C. Phillips; R. A. P inkerton; M. R afikh; J.M. Rag nau th; P . J. Ramphal ; V . H. A. Ries; Z. M . A. Sankar ; L. F . S a rdinh a; I. Shepherd; J. A. A. Sin gh; C. S . Spence; A. C.R. Sylves te r; ]'.. C. T a ng ; C. Y. Thom as ; D . A. B . Tro t m a n; A. B. Watkins; R. Willock; B. A. Yhap; R. D. Kaufmann; P. H. Kaufmann; J. M. Sparks.

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R. G. Lee. J. P. F arrar.

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G. H olde r.

R. Smellie.

R. E. Lnm.

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M. I nsanally .

P . Bornste in.

R. B. Woo -Ming .

C. T rotz.

R. o. Y,:,a nY oocl.

B. 0. 1, :1ac~ .

N. A. \' ah..

D. \\'. Cla rke.

L . I-1. Sa ttaur.

R. L. Clark e.

It . V. E . L uck.

IL U . Barcln ~·.

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I. H. D. H a re\,·ond .

Raha m an.

M. J nikaran .

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J . R. i\I u nroe .

F. E . :\l un ga l C. B. P hi lli ps .

3rd FORM I V b PAR. :l s l Prize

2nd 3rd

W . I. Lee .

P. E . Ph nn g. w . E. N urse.

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FORM !V a : 1st P riz(' 2nd 3rd

V. L . A. Wong .• W. W. Anderson : C. R. Nic ole.

FORM Va:l s t Pri ze 2nd 3rd

N . S. C. Cameron .

R. L . Ed wards.

F. Debidin .

FORM Vb:1st Prize 2nd 3rd

D. G. Small.

J . W. Whittin gham.

M. A. Cam eron.

F ORM VT:Q. M. S. Rich mond.

L a ngu ages

Q. M. S . Ri c;hm oncl .

History

D. C. P anda~1.

G eog raph y

D . C. Panday.

Mathematics

F. R. Wills.

Ph ysics & Ch ernistry

W . H. L. Allsopp. ..

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DRAWING PRIZES :-

SCHOOL CERTIFICATE PRIZE

N. E. Ba nni ste r.

G . H. Lee.

Pri zes for outs ta ndin g merit award ed to l b oys who by force of exam in sc 1 0 0 1 activities J end eavo ur to furth<'r th rnve m ade the greatest e progress of th e ~c hool. pl e good work and interes t .

MOULDER CUP FOR JUNIOR CR ICKET HODGSON CuP FOR SHOOTING

t Ph:rng, W. A .

Broomes, D . R. • P ollard, B. I. T. --carter, M. W. i. L . L . *Ra • Collins, B . A . N .

•·:·Ramphal, S. S. ·;·Drayton, H. A .

-;· Rarn sa mnl\'. J. R. Edghill, H. B . <•·:·Sam , E. L . ffung-a- F a t, A. G. '' Smith, R. C. •Ja ckson, R. E . *Tulloch, C. 0 •Jon as, R. M. "Van Serti ma . G. A. S. • Kaw all, L. M . R. •• Wills, F. R. •Noel, F. A. •Narayan, G . H. •Qualified for E xemption from L ondon I nter. Arts. ·;·Qualified for Exemption from London In ter . Science .

••British G uiana Scholar, 1947.

• j-Qualified for Exem ption from Inter . B.Sc . (Econ. ), London .

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE SCHOOLS EXAMINATION BOARD. . SCHOOL CERTIFICATE, 19-l.7.

Abdul, A .

Boland, R. N . F. *Anderson, W. \\'. *C h an, L. C. Chan, V. R. • Dea ne, C. A. W. •Dubruel de Broglio. M. M. C .

• Eyre. B . A. • Eyre, K . S. Gill, C. A. H asa n, A .

• r nsanall y, M. K. Z. S. •J ohn, E. E .

Linton, N. 0. '\: Low-a-Chee. F. I. Lo,,·c. 1\1. T. L uckhoo. M. S. Nicole. C. R. *Osman. M. A. P err y. C. 0. ''Ra gbcer, M .

Sylves ter, C . .-\ . 0 . ''Th om, L. H. "\'igi lance, B. \\'.

Wun g. R . \'.

Won g. \'. L . . \.

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QUEEN'S COLLEGE PRIZES:-

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S. S. M. Insa nally.

B . A. Eyre.

M . A . Osm a n.

FORM IV a PAR.:l st Prize 2nd 3rd

B otany & Zoology

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E. E. Low. C. B. Phillips.

I. R. Kin g .

No awa rd made.

Car ter, B. W. Chin. E. N .

Delph, A. G . C. Denn iso n, L. G. D umme tt. M. A. R. Evelyn, D. G .

J anki. N. I. Ken~·. R. l\1.

O\\·cn . W. E. Sa\·oury. I. S. St . Hill. U. \".

Taitt. H . Jl.

'Qua lified for E xemption from L ondon l\Ialrciulati o:1.

7 Perci,·al Schol ar. 1947.

ENDORSEMENTS (School Certificate).

Adam son. J . D. ' Small, D. G. Winter, A . B.

Lea l, H . I. Tnnc:. K. :--r.

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PERC IV AL HOUSE. House Master Assistant House Master Prefects

Mr. E. 0. Pilgrim, B.Sc. Mr. Rawlings, B.Sc. P. A. Bacchus, T. F. K. Lee.

!he past y:ar has no: been particularly outstanding from the point of view. of achrevemen ts m our House. Owing to the loss of a few of our semors, we have found ourselves mainly dependent on the younger member~ of th~ House, though they, undaunted, have responded admirably, domg their best at all times.

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The House 1:1~de a fine start in the Cricket Competition obtaining ~n excellent pos1t10n from fhe beginning. The matches were, however mterrupte~ by the Christmas holidays, and on their resumption, the House suffered from an unaccountable lapse in the spirit of the first and second elevens. As a result, the commandinJ lead of the House was tamely. a.llo~ed to taken away and we were reduced to third place.

The ~pmt of the _third eleven was, however, of the best, the I members sho win g great keenness throughout, winning four out of their five matches. This augu:s well for the future and we expect great things of them.

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At the Sports meeting, the House was again forced to recognise the lack of senior representatives . A combined effort notwithstandin g (A House won the relay) brought us a good third.

• The encl of the Christmas Term saw the departure of the School Capta1~ and. our own leader "Chubby'' Phang. We are indeed sorry to this quiet and ~nassuming leader who has earned the respect and hkrn g . of all about him .. We congratulate him on his splendid performance 111 the London Higher Examination, and on beino· awarded E ngmeermg . .

S c h o1ars h rp. ' an The House wishes him all the"' best for the future.

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. What is there to stop us regaining our customary holding of the :·anous cups_? L et us go all out, as we have done in the past. As a Jormer captam of ours has said "Let us go 'A'-head'' and strive to remain there.

P. A. BACCHUS, House Captain.

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HOUSE.

House Master

Mr. H. A. M. BECKLES ,B.A.,

Assistant House Masters

Messrs . A. G. A . LARTEE, BA ., and H. R. PERSAUD. I. R. KING.

House Captai n House Prefects

R. E. JACKSON,

M. A. CAMERON, C. S. CHABROL, W. A. FU NG-A-LING.

BEFORE we say ar,ything about our activities, let us take this opportunity to welcome Mr, Beckles back to us , and to thank Mr. Larthe for his whole-hearted interest in the__ House during Mr. Beckles's absence.

To those boys who have left, we Sa)' "Good luck", and may they bear high the torch lighted in Raleigh House. · We imThe Inter-House cricket competition proved interesting. proved our position a great deal towards the end of it, gaining forty points in all.

Of these, our First Eleven ':"as r esponsible for 26, and our 3rd XI for the re.m ainder.

In Athletics, we had been last for the past three years, but ,,·e did · exceedingly well this year, coming third with the fine three-figure total of 101 points. Special mention must be made of our Tug-o-War teams, who won both the Under 17 and Open tu gs this year. The spirit displayed by the boys was most praiseworthy. r: R. King won the Raleigh House Cup, and tied with Whittingham for the Senior Championship.

Let us not, hO\\·ever, be satisfied with these modest · results. but remember that unity is str ength, and that if this is obtained much better can still be done.

I. R. KING , (House Cap t.)

AUSTIN

HOUSE.

House Masters

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Mr. J . H. BEVIS. B.Sc. (Hons), Mr. K. N. MAUDSLEY, B.A., and Mr. J . N. CHUNG .

J. WHITTINGHAM.

House Captain

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House Vice-Captain

. . F. A. NOEL.

Th e House has done very well in the last school year, and \\·e owe most of our success to the concerted effor ts of the House as a whole. Vo/ e were pleasantly surprised when we won the House Cricket Competition, and Noel, who handled the teams with great success, clesen·es our heartiest congratulations. On the other hand the House owes the winning of the Athletic Shield almost solely to the seniors, and if the juniors had exhibited this year the keenness of last year, quite a differel1[ story could have been told, even if the final result would have been the same.

There has always been a tendency to leave the work to those members of the House who have already been successful, most of us forgetting that the House is not sixty individuals, but one body with a common

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aim, and each must do his bit, ho\vever humble, to keep the H ouse goin forward.

Austin missed getting the Football Shield last summer, not for lac of trying, but because a little more practice was needed. We had chance then of being tripple crown champions, and we have that chan again this year. As it is one that is not likely to occur again for qui a while those of us who are keen footballers had better put fr1 some har practice.

In conclusion, I am of the opinion that the House has shown a trnl fine spirit for the past two years, and if it continues marvels can be accomplished. The juniors must remember that the seniors are not goin to be here for ever, and that those seniors were juniors once too, an were, as juniors, just keen winners of standard points, so let us try be triple champs this new year.

J. WHITTINGHAM, (House Capt.)

D'URBAN Hou se Master A ssis tant House Master Hou se Captain House Vice-Captain

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HOUS E.

Mr. H . V . TAITT, M.A. Mr. CHUNILALL, B .A .

R. L. EDWARDS M . A. FRASER .

For yet another year, D'Urb:m House has to report th 9t no great progress in the field of sport has been made. This, however, is due mor to Jack of enthusiasm than to any scarcity of talent.

We were nowhere near the top in cricket or swimming, and i Athletics were actually placed last. However, special mention must be made of S. Gordyk, our football and athletic captain, who is always keen and who shattered the former Mile Record to establish his own. But although we ended up nearly last in every branch of sport in the Hous Competition, we \.Vere nevertheless not disgraced. We know that in D'Ur· b::rn there are still more Bascorns and Jupi ters.

As usual, we had our Annual Social at the close of the Christmas term . On this occasion we joined with Austin House, and we are glad lo report that in spite of austerity , every one came a\vay feelin g satisfied.

We should like to take this opportunity of congratulating Bruce Pairaudeau on his very cred itable performance against the Jamaicans last year and of expressin g the hope that very bright things are in store £or this promising cricketer.

It is time that the House awakened to an awareness of its position.

Thin gs have been allowed to lie dormant too lon g. Awake from your torpor, D'Urban, and the day will not be far distant when you will once more regain the position you held not so lon g ago - the Champion House of the School. Yon know you can do it, so . .!2;et down to the job.

R. L. EDWARDS, (House Capt. 1947-48).

PILGRIM

HOU SE.

Mr. N . E. CAMERON, :M.A.

· House Master · Acting House Master Assistant House Master House Captain 1{ouse Vice-Captain

Mr. L. E. DOW. Mr. T . B. E. RICHMOND .

R M. JONAS. B. A. N. COLLINS .

D. C. PANDAY, K. F. S. KING, D. G. Sl\IALL.

House Prefects

Though we did not enjoy such a bumper season as was ?ur usual ood fortune in previous years, we most assuredly ha\'e nothmg to be gh cl of We should realise however, that our all-round supremacy as ame · ' 1 is not so firmly established. . for I n sp ort ' our lowly position in athletics has been more 1than. atoned . k t by our topping the list in footb.all and our gaining th_ird p ace m cn.c e · t four points behind the wmners. In fact, had 1t not been for some of ability in our cricket 3rd Eleven (which yielded us exactly no points), we might have captured the Cricket Shield.. .

Even more should we be proud of our scholastic achievements and congratulate those of us who were successful in the. School .Certificate and London Higher examinations, among whom special mention should be made of Collins who, on his first attempt, reached scholarship standard.

In concluding, I should like to. urge members of Pilgrim House to work hard and to foster the finest team spirit possible . It is on!~· in this way that our initial ascendancy will be regained.

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KEEP IT UP, BOYS.

R. JONAS.

WESTON House Master

HOU SE.

l\fr. D. A. S;\lITH, :M.A.

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Assistant House Masters

Messrs . C. I. DRAYTON, C. E. BARKER and A. P . B. RICHMOND.

House Captain

D. A. L. CARRINGTON.

House Prefects

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. N. F. SKEETE, R. M. LALL. L. L. RA!. G. P.A. FORBES and R. N. DA SILVA.

MoTTo-"Idem in studiis -0c in ludis, sernper excellens·' We can be justly proud of the part played by our House in the House Competitions of the past year. Enthusiasm has never, since 1.he maug~iration of Weston House reached a hi baher level. Indeed, the element which • was mainly responsible for our success in the realm of sport is the \\ est.on House spirit. We carried off t.he Aquatic Shield and came second by a narrow margin t.o Austin House in Athletics.

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The Aquatic Spor ts which are a new feature in the realm of sport Q.C. were highly successful.

The Weston 'swimmers performed ve creditably indeed. Klautky, the Under 17 champion and Kennedy (Open) proved themselves good swimmers and are to be commended on the' fine efforts.

J. I. Phillips, the College swimming champion, who wo every event in the Under 15 division, as well as the events .in which h took part in the Open divi sion is to be congrat ulated for an outstandin performance. .

Our not securing the Athletic Shield this year was due largely t over-confidence. The Under 13 division contributed the majority of th points. Proctor, Nicholson and especially Sylvester (12) who came thir

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CRICI{ET NOTES (1947-JS) by "PRIOR" JONAS h we were handicapped during the '48 season by the loss_ of . as G . Delph ' H . Edghill ' T. Janki and F. Wills, g h hThou first-class p Iayers sue t able to find some new talent from the House mate es we were ye c C H . od R Gaskm , S. d to fill the breach with the newc_o mers . ar ewo ' .' an d C 'Phillips With constc}nt net practice there is no reason Gordyk an Id· not do as· well as or even better than, om. pre · d ec e s sors · 1 why we s1ou , B

in the Open mile are to be con grat ulated on their fine efforts. Klautky who broke the Long Jump record in the Under 17 _d ivision, deserves praisi J h · d ' t· · h d h. lf I · f I I Ph']]' too . .15. division, i ips, also w o gained agarn the is rngms unse It as o di t Under Housee Cup. wasc 1amp10n our great appointment in losin g the tug, for we had an excellent team.

THE INTER-COLLEG IATE TOURNAMENT: Playing wit~ou_t · . Pairaudea u, our cap t am, we · are defeated St Stanislaus on the 1st We mmngs, · · two-day match played on the B.G.C.C. ground,. Thomas. m thusa qua ]'f' i ie d to n)eet Berbice Hicrh "' School in the fmal for the J acob We how · Cup.

ever look forward for a trying time with our victors-Raleigh House, ne year.

Our cricket captain, B. Pairaudeau, did not play for us .this seaso having had to put in strenuo us practice for his first ap pearahce againsl the touring M.C.C. team. However, this was no reason why we shoul · H ere the n ot have come out of the competition in a better position.

Second Eleven did well, by winning three of their matches.

The First and Third Elevens should follow the excellent example o team work and healthy co-operation so admirably demonstrated by the Second Eleven.

At our House Social, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves . This year it was arran ged in conjunction with the "Boys of the Bulldog Breecl"Raleigh House, to whom we must express our app reciati on of their wholehearted co-operation.

Our efforts during the past year have been reward ed with success. 'vVe should not be satisfied with these attainments, but strive to become the Champion House, worthy of the spirit of Mr. F. T. Weston, always keeping foremost in our minds, our motto - "The same in work as in play-always excellin ;{ ·, D. A. L. CARRINGTON, Captain.

NORTHCOTE CUP:

This is our only chance of testing our stren~th

a<1ainst that of Lt division clubs. In the· 1st round we _played Post Office C~C. They won the toss, batted first on_ a perfect wicket an~ pottered b t for 148 runs for the loss of 8 wickets on the 1st da). On the : 0 1~:wing day, however, their tail-end wagged lustily and they _wei_·e all out for 226; Jonas took 4 for 46 and King 3 for 67. In our knock, \Ve hit up 231 for 7 wickets. Bruce Pairaudeau scored 139 not out, Leal 41.

Our next contestants were the B.G. C.C. and here our battmg strength failed us. Batting first we could muster only 129.' 60 of_ \\'.hich were score"'d

by Pairaudeau. These runs our opponents had little d1ffi~ulty 111 maki_n"''. though at one time they hacl 6 wickets clown and only 80 i uns on the !ms, ?. quic o , one of our former captains, soon settled · k- 50 , h owever, b y C . Acrard matters .

• Hence we were eliminated from the competition but not d!sgracecl: In fact we should be complimented on our performance, for we chcl better than a~y of the other 2nd division teams . Thi_s should take us one step further in our quest of a chance in 1st class cricket.

CRICKET

CHARACTERS.

B. H. PAIRAUDEAU: Our skipper and No . 1 batsman who ne~cls · t roel uc t·1011 to ct·i'c],et lovers · Has all the charactenst1cs ot I a no 111 ' . · J t ·man but over-confidence makes him attack t 1e t gb1rea1· opebrnfng Jbaei~g w'ell set the result bein g that he is apt to edge ow mg e ore ' h . · rr · l1is · 111111 · ·ngs · The school's best .new-ball bo\\'ler \\' o S\\ "'s ear 1y m . .

1 rn. ffthe ball both ways but is rather erratic 111 len gth. H e 1Jow s u · breaks and an occasional wrong-un w ith the old ball. A brilliant field anywhere, excelling at slips.

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THE DIAS CUP SEMI-FINAL

It took us two matches to estab lish our usual supremacy over S t. Stanislaus this scr.son. The first match played on th e G.F.C. gro un~ Bourda, ended in a 1-all draw. S t. Stanislaus, playing better footba!f than they have pl ayed for the last fou r years, gave the confident Q,C; team a shock as they scored th e first goa l, and then proceeded to defen1 ,tubbornly until nea, the end when M. Moo,e equahsed fo, Queen's. j The re-play was held at Eve Leary ground, Thomas. St. Stanislaus opened the game by raiding the Queen's College goal and bombarding i t with well-placed shots, which goal-keeper Boland did well to save., Ind eed, this player saved excellently througho ut the match. Again the first goal was scored by S t. Stanis la us, but nothing daunted Queen's equalised before the end for the Saints' goal-keeper fumbled and P. Bacchus scored.

The referee decided to pla y fif teen minutes over-time, duri.11g which S . Klautky scored for Queen 's, to gi\'e them a chance to go to Berbice to contest the fin al of the J acob and Wight Cups.

Special mention must be made of H. Lea l (full-back) , F ! Boland (goal -keeper) ; G. Delph and S. Kl autky (win gers ) , who excelled in their respective positions.

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ho la ys well when he is no t M.ffW.. TANG: The imagmary left ~alf-b~~lk w I~ very sound and possesses . g from some 1 ness. su enn f'd 1 t . a source . of r ea! danger . a grea am aunt . oL. self-con h f t rience. aht-win ger is This as ht he e, kicks as ' "'equally well with both feet. Should A. G. DJ ELPH· . opp.onents to 11S ]cl go far in the football wor . t' back some-time forward is nor H PAIRAUDEAU: This some- ime da -s as cricket seems to be B. s~en much on the fo_otball f1 eldd t_~ese Sh~ots hard and effectively, . , on e obJect ' one esu his one _aim . e.

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and tackles well. . '. cl of the side who "dribbles" much P A BACCHUS: The centre-for war . gly impossible things on the . .

1·ttl Does some seemm l II and shoots 1 e. d field , but is a real trier and a goo wor·ker . Should pass the )a . . . . ·de-left well and The slow, d1mmut1ve ms1 . ' who . dpasses ·1 . a t times. Is rmprovmg a1 y. hoots low and dangerous f h' h position he end ea Yours t I ft ·no rom w 1c S. KLAUTKY: Plays a e -w1 "'' d direction but is very fast. He to centre the ball. Lacks power an

more.

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·cl who dribbles and distributes well , too , is improving. . .

An~ther _ms1de-forw:i1 ld treat the ball as if he is not th e fm1shmg shot.

1ou afraid of it.

n. M.butJONAS: lacks

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Football Char acters.

F. M. BOLAND:

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The goal-keeper of the side who excels in all importan t matches. A t the beginning of the season he was somewh at weak but he regained his true form as th e season progressed. He is always in position and h ardly ever concedes a corner.

I. R. KING; Our right full -back who tackl es accordin g to the size or the rep utation of th e oppos ing player. Clea rs loftily, when he connects. Sho uld remember that " he who h esitates is lost".

T he H umber oftc:rs that

H. I. LEAL : Th e capta in and left full- back whose play is a sure inspiration to his sid e. He does everything well except scoring off a penalty kick.

L. C. CHAN : The right half-back who is unti ring in his efforts. A sound player whose chief fault is his zeal, as h e often trespasses on other 's territory ... "trap clc zele . . . . "

.S. GORDYK : Th e rovin g centre-half who tnckl es and distributes well, Is some,d1at off-colour at present as he needs practice. Should use his head more.

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T. TOO-CHUNG:-Our speedy left winger who can carry the ball well, but finds himselr in difficulty when he tries to centre it.

PHANG.

During th e earlier part of th l t were played by the school eleve e das school year, very few matches n, an amon erst the · · P.la y a t a 11 . Regular practice, howev "' .

Jun10rs there was no ftnally had about 50 1·un· d . er, began Ill June when Mr. Larth 10rs an senwrs pl · e At the end of that vear man . aymg under his supervision. team was now without Mr H y o~ our best players left. The school B. Mook-Sang and E L s· arbper, . E. Leu, H. Edghill, W. R. Phang.

V p . . am, u t the vaca t I ' . . Chung, H. r. Leal K T C n P aces are ably filled by Gl f ' · ang Chabr I T T as ord. We still greatly feel the l~ss .of E ~' . oo-Chung, and M. half, the best player the College h dgh11J , our captain and centresented the Colony in two as so far produced and who has repre- .

In B separate tournaments arbados, we lost against the Pick . . our weak display was due to our ina .. wick ~lub by 3 goals to nil. But our regular El even, some of ou. b brhty to freJ_d anything approaching tnp. r est players be111g unable to make the RESULTS OF HOCKEY LEAGUE, 1947.

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V. P. CHUNG:-Pla ys at left half and uses his speed to good advantage.

M. GLASFORD:-A promising right winger who can centre well.

D. PHANG: -A keen inside-right who could hardly be more speedy, but · could be a little sounder (H.I.L.) .

H. EDGHILL: -Our last year skipper and tireless centre half.

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B. P_AIRAUDEAU:-Insicle left-Josse· rn g Colony player if he t· J l sses a very powerful shot. A coms rc <s to the ga me.

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ressive player who, using h is hei ght and reach

J{ING, I. R.-dA \ et:)ge a!~ashes consistently with the back-hand . One of ' . to good a van our best players.

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"st list" of th e "B" team.

A p~ayer whose collap~es

KING K F. S.-Theare yoften unaccoun t a ble . P ossesses a good fore·arm. in' tournaments

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TABLE TENNIS has taken a back seat in the sports curriculum of Queen's College: However, thanks to the active work of Mr. N. Cameron, the College is still recognised as an important focal point of the game. · Last summer we entered, as usual, two teams in the Sherlock Cup· Competition.

Our "A" team, comprising of B. P airaudeau (capt.), D. Sam, I. R. King, C. D. Phang and G. Delph, was unfortunate in encounter- . ing in the first round, the strongest team in the competition, the Y.M.C.A. .''A" team. We lost. Not too discouraged, we turned with hope to our · "B'' team which contained such promising ping-pong exponents as K. King, H. I. Leal, R. J onas, C. Harewood and P. Kemzies. But there again, our last "hopefuls" :Vere caught in the web of defeat, the on ly person to escape being young Kemzies , a last minute inclusion in the team.

However, thou gh we were vanquished so decisively, the good display of two of our players, C. Phang and D. Sam did not escape certain watchful eyes, and as a result, these two players were called to pra'ftise to represent the Colony against Barbados and Trinidad.

We regret that those eyes did not rest finally on those two representatives.

When Trinidad came over last September to contend with B.G. for Table Tennis honours, the programme included a match between the Trinidad side and Q.C. We lost, of course, but creditably, two of our five , I. R. King and D. Sam, notching splendid victories.

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SU ' d e f ence. harder and improve h is

JONAS, R.-The nght typet

h "B" team Only 13 years old and already KEMZIES, P.-The_bab~ of t ed . t ble--tennis circles . . Half volleys and his name is bemg d1scusse m a . . kl Y with an occasional top-spmners. pushes qu1c . s th e most matches for the side. Though SAM, D.-The playe~ who _w~most im regnable defence and occasiona l not very are aggressive, hisrea l worry . t~ his opponent. Should represent smashes a source of the Colony this year.

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PAIRAUDEAU, B.-Our Captain who has fallen off considerably owing to his devotion to cricket.

He still possesses a good defence, however, and an effective top spin smash.

PHANG, C. D.- A very good defensive player who also demonstrates both smashes at practice. Is inclined to gi\·e up towards the end of a game when his opponent is in the lead.

LEAL. H. I.-A very attractive player when on the aggressive. Possesses both smashes but is extremely erratic.

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WESTON HOUSE SWIMMING CHAMPIO NS.

On the 19th Decembe r , 1947, about a h undred and fifty b oys turned up at the G.F.C . gro und to witness the first swimming gala in five years.

The swimming pool was kindly lent for the occasion, and time after time boys eager for battle ca m e to its brinks . to demonstrate their natatorial skill.

In the stan d stood th eir less enterprising schoolmates, some mocking, others u rg in g on their fa vou rites with yells of " Come on ...... ' or " Take him down ... .. . " And in t_h e m idst of it all, obviously enjoy. ing himself, sat the Lord Bishop of G uiana wh o h ad been kind enough to honour us with his presence.

It was approximately one o'clock that the first batch of competitors stood , k eyed with anxiety and determination, ea gerly awaiting the Starter's "Go." All the events were keenly contested and not even J ohn P hillips (F) who secured the Victor Ludorum Cup can say that h is was an easy run h ome. His determination and grit combined with skill in that sport, won him the magnificent trophy.

Kennedy (F) and Rickford (C) were the best in the Open and Under 13 divisions r espect ively, whil e Dummett (C) a nd Ma n-son-hing (F) Und er 13-and Tang (E) and Kaufmann (C)-Open-shone in 1their r espective divisions.

Klautky (F) who did v e ry well in the "Under 17" was unfortunate in pulling a muscle and this preven(ed him from taking part in the last race. In his division he received keenest opposition from Gilkes (i) (B) a nd Persaud (D), while in the "Under 15", Phillips had no easy task winning from Gilkes (ii) (B), R. Chin (D) and Von-der-Pool (C).

Th e cheers which greeted Mr. Smith and " his Life-Saving squad"' ,\·ere a true in d ication of the way in w hich the Life Saving De m onstration was r eceived . Th ere was only one pair that didn't quite like the idea of ret urnin g to land .

The most thrilling race of the day was probably the Inter-House R ela y, where each of the comp etitors swam one length . The Austin (C) house team , compr isin g Rickford, Von-der-Poo l, L am and Kaufmann , won from the strong backed Wes ton Hou se team . It was an event that called for both th e correct h ouse sp iri t and ind ividual effort.

The most amusing events were the Balloon a nd S trip Tease Races.

In the former , J. L. Tai tt demonstrated exttaordinary dexterity in k eeping his inflated b a lloon in fr ont of his head as he showed his compet itors 1he way home. Whose b a lloo n was it that p opped? That was fun w hil e it lasted. And so was th e Strip Tease Ra ce, in which Rickford, who got bis clothes and shoes off w iih amazing alacrity. was first, w hile Vonder-Po0l succeeded in losi ng one of bi s shoes !

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. of tl1i·s v ery interestin g pro gramme, Mr. Beckles ' ·ii· I A t th e cone 1us1on . . . Sl . 1d to West on H ouse.

J ohn P\11 ips , w 10 t l the Swimming 1ie . . . cc . ft walked up- again to r eceive the V1cto1 Presen . d the Shield soon a er c • • • . receive . ' t d by th e Bishop for competition 111 t 111s n Cup which was presen e h .

Ludoru1 Aft ""' r · B eckles h ad conoratulated the winners, t e f sport er 1v1 . b , 1· forrn o . . h ' enJ· oyment of the aftern oon s proceec m gs .

B' hop rose to expi ess JS . . h . .. h G . a Colony of waters - should be nc m Lor d JS ·ct that Bnt Js Ulana l He saJ h h ld 1·ndL1lae in that sport for amusement, pleasure anc . rnmers w o s ou b l swi . e ended his remarks by assuring all present th_a t an y proposa. safet). ~ . . ba'l1 in our- new College \\' ou1d h::n·e hi s strongest for a swJmmrng ' support.

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1 Length: Dummett (C) 1, Wishart (B) 2, Rickford Breast Stroke (Under 13 ) . (C) 3. Tim e : 40.5 secs.

T ang (E) 1, Gilkes (B) 2. K aufmann (C) 3.

Breast S troke (Open ) 2 Lengt h s: Time· l min. 13.5 secs. ·· · Und er 13) · Ri ckford (C) 1, Fraser (D) 2. Hu gh (B) 3. .

Diving ( l (U j .13 ) 1 Leng th · Rickford (C) 1 Dumnwtt (C) 2. M a n- son-h111 g Free Sty e r.l er · ' (Fi 3. Time : 31.5 secs.

Diving (Under 15 ): Gilkes (B ) 71 '. ~ pls. 1, V on -rler-P ool (C) 2, Phillips (F) 3.

Back S tr oke (U nd er 13): M an-son-h ing (F ) 1, Dummett (Cl 2, R ickford (C) 3. r ime : 23 secs.

Back St roke (O pen ) 1 L ength : K aufman n (C) 1, K enned~· (F) 2, T ang (E) 3. rime : 45 secs.

Back S troke (Und er 15 ): . Ph illips (F) l. R. Chin (D) 2. Cha n (B)3 . rime: 26 secs.

Back Str oke (Und er 17 ): Kl au tky (F ) 1. Va n Serlima ii (B) 2, G ask in (B) 3.

T ime : 29.5 secs.

Breast S troke (Under 15) l Le ngth : Phillips (F) 1: Ch an (B ) 2; Von-cler-P ool (C) 3. Time : 28 .5 secs.

D iving (Under 17): Gil kes (B) , K in g (B) 66 pts. 1; Kl ~utky (F) 3 .. .

Free S tyle· (U nder 15 ) l Leng th: Phillips (F) 1: R. C h111 (D), Gil kes (B) 2.

Time : 19 secs. ·c ·r·1111~, 13 .secs · F) 1 · T an" (E ) 2 · K aufmann \ ) 3 .

Free Style (Open ): K en ne cl Y ( · o , . . , ·11· (F) 1 · K P er,aud (D) 2: Bha g\\ a n elm (Fl 3.

L ong P luge (Open ) : Pl11 1ps . · -' Distance: 33 ft. 7 ins.

Free S tyle (U nder 15 ) 2 L eng ths : Ph illips (F ) l: Gil kes (B) 2: R. Chin (D) 3.

Time: 44 secs.

(U nder 17) z L en gths: Kbutk y (Fl 1: K. P ersa ud (D) 2; V;.1 11Free S tyle Sl'rlima (B) 3. T ime : 46 secs.

(Open ) z Lengths: K ennedy (F) 1: Tang (E) 2: K aufman n (C) 3.

Free Style Timc: secs.

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·tt (A ) 1·, N:issv . . J (F) 2·· Von-cler-P ool (C) 3.

B a11 oon R ace: J . T a1 Diving (Open ): K enn edy (F) 1; Lee (A) 2: Koufm ann (C) 3. . (C) l ; \',' cs t on (F ) ?· Relay Race: Austm - · Rale igh (B l 3. · . • p .,,u l (D) 2: Chan (A) 3.

Free S tyle (Under 17) 1 L ength: Kl:iutk? (F) 1. 1"-· CLc t Time: 21 secs.

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Open Handic ap-5 Lengths.· Strip Tease R ace:

Pl11·1,·ips CF) 1; De Broglio (F) 2.

Eight records came tumblin g down and two more ,vere equalled as

18 pts.

Raleigh CB) House:

45 1 2 pts.

51 pts.

once again Queen 's College held its Annual Athletic Sports Meeting. .

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85 pts.

Victor Ludorum Cup:

The few light showers that fell on the morning of Friday, 12th March,

1948, only helped to make the condition of the track as nearly perfect as

D'Urban CD) House : 26 ~2 pts.

Pil grim (E) House : 19 pts.

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220 yds. Free Style (Open): Phillips CF) 1,· P e1·saud CD) 2; De Broglio Bhagwandin CF) 4. T 1'1ne ·. 3 mins. · 11 \2 secs.

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Three new records had been established prior to our Sports Day-J. Whittingham (C) putting the shot 36 ft. 9 ins., S. Klautky (F) leapin g the distance of 20 ft. 11/z ins. and J ohn Phillips throwing the cricket ball 92 yds.

Athletes were definitely in top form and consequently in a l'ecord-breaking mood. Competition was at its highest and due credit must be given to Austin (C) H ouse which was able to retain both the Standard Points Shield and the Championship Shield.

The first record of the day was registered as Proctor (F) breas fed lhe tape in '220 yds. under 13,' yards ahead of his opponents, completing lh ·:, distance in 27 4 5 secs. and breaking an eighteen-year-old record. A - ---few minutes later, Melville (C) equalled Kin g·s '220 yds. under 17' record of 24 secs; and about half an hour later, exhibiting fine judgment, a good · slride and excellent condition, he strode past his opponents to clip a second off the record in the quarter-mile which he had set the pre\·ious year. King (B), following his example, proceeded to whip Gordyk (D), lhe favourite in the quarter-mile open, and to erase the fraction from P. Carter's record of 54 1/5 secs.

We cap his Gilkes hurdles

saw Whittin gham (C) , after outplacing his rivals in the hurdles, fin e performance with a sensational high jump of 5 feet 7 ins.

(B) who was first in the 'Und er 17' high jump, equalled the record of 16 4 '5 secs.

Then we· saw Mongul (A) completing the half-mile under 17 amid ch eers after running the distance in 2 rnins. 16 secs. and clipping 7 -:I 5 secs. off King's record set in 1946. Using fine judgment, this small, lithe athlete moved away from the favourites and in the home stretch strode away from his closest rival to end up strongly.

As usual, the Tu g-o-War was the event which caused most shrieks and cheers and this year Raleigh (B) House won in both the Under 17 and Ope n d'1v1s1ons. . .

I n the 0 pen division, however, the struggle was keener and only after prodigious efforts did the Raleigh House bo;is heave their much heavier Weston (F) House rivals across the order. Truly, that was a battle of brain and co-ordination versus brawn!

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And again b oys cheered as they saw the dignified old boys trying f . s upremacy, pushing, jostling and trying their utmost to overtake M 'Des ' Marks, who maintained his early lead right up to the tape.

Then th e event of the day ! The blue riband of our Meeting-th mile ! F or the first time in years we saw over a dozen enthusiast~ "small boys" get a handicap of a quarter lap from their seasoned riva who started scra tch.

From the time the pistol ban ged, Gorclyk (D) showed us that he meant business. Overtaking the novices one by one he forged ahead, exhibiting his grand stride to perfection and setting hu own pace. He raced around the Bourda track in one of the finest ex J1ibitions of distance running ever seen. Amid loud cheers hr moved towards the tape, returnin g the remarkable time of mins . 1 3/5 secs.; 81 /5 secs. faster than R. M. Nicholson's record of eigh! years ago.

Con gratulations must also be extended to King, who by running second in this event, tied with Whittingham for the Senior Championship, and a lso on young (Under 13) Sy lvester who ended up inches behind Kin g - a fine r ace ringin g down the curtain on a truly m agn ificen t day's racin g.

J . A. P rocto r (F) was Under 13 champion. Phillips (F) emerged Junior Champion, and MelviLe (C) who gave an excellent performance w as Under 17 Champ. ( Was the day's performance inspired by the prizes or thJ presence of His Excellency Sir Charles Woolley, K.C.M.G., M.C., O.B.E. ? While the athletes stop to ponder on the answer, let us take time off to echo the Principal's expression of thanks to Mr. J . J. Niles for his tireless energy and to the G.C .C. for kindly lending us their ground. The Governor add¡ . eel his quota of con gra tulations, and Lady Woolley presented the prize~ after which it was an nounced that a holiday was to be granted . Cheers echoed and r e-echoed across the Bourcla sward as Whittin gham ca ll ed for "three cheers" for His Excellency.

Athletic Shield: Au stin (C) House.

Standard Points Shield : Austin (C) Hou se.

Open Champions: J. W. Wh ittingham, I. R. King2 l pts.

Under ' 17' Champion: L. B. Melville 18 pts.

Under ' 15' Champion: J. I. F. Phillips 12 pts.

Under '13' Champion: J . A. P roctor 12 1/2 pts.

HOUSE CUPS PERCIVA L (A) HOUSE: N. Bacchus RALEIGH (B) HOUSE: I. R. Kin g AUSTIN (C) HOUSE: J. W . W hitti ngham D'URBAN (D) HOUSE: S. Gordyk PILGRIM (E) HOUSE: H. Gree ne WESTON (F) HOUSE: J . I. F . Phillips

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Athletic Characters.

by S . GORDYK

PROCTOR: -The under 13 champ of 1.he school who possesses a fine stride, and a free and easy style, which were partly responsible for his establishing a new 220 yds. recor~. Should go far in athletics.

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J. I. F. PHILLIPS:-This strong athlete combines a maximum of strength with infinite determination.

He is our present Junior ,Champion.

E. NASSY:-A good sprinter who, in spite of his lack of training, produced good results this season. Should train more seriously.

N. BACCHUS:-A promisin g middle-distance runner who takes his train-

in g seriously. Should run closer to the line.

L. MELVILLE:-This natural athlete specialises in the middle-distances.

He did well to cut one second off the 440 yds. record which established by him last year and to equal the 220 yds. r ecord.

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F. MONGUL:-Surprised the crowd by not only winning the half-mile event but by establishing a new record . P ossesses much stamina and determination .

G. GILKES:-A champ ion jumper, who, in SP, it e of a bad ly hurt knee won the hurdles and high jump under 17.

I. R. KING: -One of our open champions, whose tall athletic figure is often seen flyin g away before his lesser opponen ts. Established a new record in the 440 yds. open.

J. WHITTINGHAM:-This strong, well-built athlete was the find of the

year. He owes his championship to a fine all -ro un d performance, as he placed in the sprints, distance events, and the jumps. Holds the Shot Putt record.

S. GORDYK: -The specialist of the school who confined himself to t wo events th is year-the 1 :1 mile and the mile. He ran the best mile seen by the school in ages, clip ping St~ secs. off of the previous 9year-old record. (I.R.K.)

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!.-Melv ille, L .; 2.-Kla utky; Chung, V. P. Tim e: 10 9/1 0 secs.

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1.-Bacchus, N .; 2.--,Nassy; Haz lewood. I. Time: 61 '4/ 5 secs .

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440 YARDS . (Open)

100 YARDS (Open)

1.-King, I. R.; 2.-Whittingham; 3.-J onas, R. Time: 10 4/ 5 secs .

(Open) 1.-Wh.iltin gham; 2.-J <; nas, R. ; 3.Edwards. R. L., King, K. , Bac chus, P. Height: 5 ft. 7 ins.

SACK RACE (Under 11) 1.- Wong ; 2.-Fra nker ; 3.-Santos.

1.-King, I. R. ; 2.-Gord yk S.; 3.Kaufmann. · ' Time: 54 secs. (Reccrd) •

OLD BOYS' RACE (220 Yards) 1.-Marks, D .; 2.-Davidson, L. ; 3.Chm, L.A .

100 YARDS (Concurrently with above)-Prep.

TUG -0-WAR F . House vs . B. H ouse : Raleigh (B) won.

}.-Roberts; 2.-Thomas; 3.-Den nison.

HALF MILE (Under 15) 1.-Bacchus, N. ; 2. - Valz; 3. Hintzen.

Time: 2 mins.' 29 secs.(Under 17) 1.- Mongu l. F .; 2.-Cheong, V. P .; _3.-Bishop, A . F .

Time: 2 mins . 16 4/5 secs. (Record)*

SACK RACE (Under 15) 1.-Spence; 2.-Wong; 3.-Dummet t.

ONE MILE (Open)

1.-Gordyk : 2.-Kin g; 3.-Syl ves tcr (i i); 4.-Raffcr ty.

Tim e: 5 mins . l 3 , 5 secs. (Record)''.

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80 YARDS (Under 9)

1.-St. G. Crosse; 2.- Will oc k. R. 3.--Fi·anker, N. _) Time: 11 315 secs .

l .-Frascr, G.: Blackman.

1.-Stoby; 2.-Th omas Mc Go11·an.

Tim e : 13 3/ 5 secs.

220 YARDS (Unde r 13)

!.- P roc tor, J . A. ; 2.-Hope; 3.Singh .

Time: 27 4/ 5 secs. (Record)*.

220 YARDS (Under 15) !.-G ree n e, H .; 2.-Nassy, E .: 3.Phillips, J . I. F. Tim e : 26 115 secs.

220 YARDS (Under 17)

!.-Melville, L. ; 2.-B acc hus, R.; 3.-Klaut ky .

Time: 2-t secs . (Equa lled Record ).

220 YARDS (Open)

1.-King, I. R. ; 2.-Whittingham.

3.-Jonas.

Time : 23 2/ 5 secs.

HIGH JUMP (Under 13)

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120 YARDS HURDLES (Under 15)

100 YARDS (Under 11)

!.-Spence, C. S., Nicholson; Proctor, J. A., Collins .

Height : 4 ft . 4 ins .

1.-King, I. R. ; 2.-Kaufmann ; 3.Whittingham.

Time : 2 mins. 34 3, 5 secs.

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Mr. E. 0. Pilgrim, Deputy Principal Retired.

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'' i am indebted to my Father for Living, but to my Teacher for Living Well."

The eighteen-year-old schoolboy had no intention of starl ing a career tgbt away when he made a h oliday visit to B ritish Guiana . Besides, his her expected hi m t o be back fresh for winning the Barbados Scholarip as so many other Pilgrims had done. Instead the you th (after a

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.1 M ora\·ian minister. Every one of his brothers has been in the educa. tional field . Determined to get ahead in the family profession, he saved enough as junior mas ter, to go to Engla nd on leave to obtain his· B.Sc_ On his return he taught Physics, but later specialised in Maths; and ~the master who first explained the systems of x and y and 2 right an gles . he possesses a p erma n ent place in th e memories of hundred s. H e con.· siclers the subjects taug ht as being of far less importa nce tha n the asso, ciation among the students, but he is only bein g modest, for at leas( un til University age has been reached, the influence of a tea cher is more important to students morally than intellectually and the influences of a born teacher like " Old Bogues' ' on . the present and future leaders of British Guiana is beyond all estimate. He also considers extra - curri. cula r duties as very important and in this r espect has been unusually active. With S g t.-Major Manly, he founded the Q.C. Scout troop (the 27th ). He has produced innumerable plays, worked on the earlier Q.C. magazine and served as Games and Athletics master as well. He spenf all his leaves in visiting schools in Europe, never failing to bring back new ideas. '

In 1917 he introduced the House system and organised Percival House, lhe other House, Raleigh , being organised by the late Mr . Leechman. He finally toured the U.S ., vi sited Wilberforce, Spellman, and Montesori Colleges, and also studied - he was ever learnin g more an d more abou t his profession - the Vida l Educati ona l Method.

He acted as Principa l of Queen's in 1928, 1934, 1937, 1938 and sen·ed also as a m em ber of the Educa tion Committee. He ca n m a ke the boastprefects now gasp at the idea - that durin g one of these periods, there was not a single detention for the whol e term.

We suspect, howe\·er, t hat he used another method of dealin g w it h yo uthful offenders. We remember the familiar "Sonny, come with me . . .. " He ca me wi th the school is the firm opinion of many juniors. Generations of Collegians learned to l ook alive when he exploded: " You donkev t here''' This usuallv preceded a Jot more and his voice, never weak, still has undisputed mastery in form . His short (5f t. 4ins.) sturdy form with the fam iliar white-fringed bald pate d ominates the whole class. None dares to turn his eyes from the board; and illustrations " Two scale pans, I balancing: Oh So sweetly, oh, so nicely . . . . " h ave a peculiar fas cin ation. His br ight and cheery disposition, his gift for imparting knowledge and his interest in their activities have made him a favo urite with thousands of boys - though we must make the admission that many loved him more after they had left school than when he stood over their .sl10ulders and murmured "sill y fow l" or w h en they endured his crushing answer to their foolish questions. He r emembers them al l, he claims, 3,000 and more of them, and ret:=iins vivid memories of some too; but he is ve ry d iscreet about certain embarass ing incidents in the early lives of

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" He often pa uses to r ema1·k '· Oh ' I . nt "Very Important P ersons.

H as a short little fellow . prese h. ·t forty years ago. e w . " taught your dad y t JI y, d when he sat in the chair . . . .

H. feet couldn't even touch th_e groun h. g the bri crhter specimens," 15 h gemus for teac m '=' "Mr.O P. seemed to av~ a the mathe mati.cal dullard s sooner or later an ha ld Bov- tells . us, but 0 boy got up an d explained that an absent ex usted his patience. d ne 1 ·m from sc h oo 1 an d had put him to work. one's parents had remove 1~o sin this form would follow their exa mI wish parents of so_me other y t d Then he let hi s eyes r est on the le Old Bogus" smtlmgly commen ~ .t l ough to paint their faces p ' . ' he called them, Jus ong en ? 'heavyweights' as· k d 'Hum ' an d t urn ed back to the board • . . . . . . " . red, grunted a w1c e h th school ,, writes another and h sed throu cr e ' · "All of us who ave pas '=' 11 · h d w ell r e m ember havmg . t" 1 throu crh 1s an s, literally as well as flgura ive y ell foi,s as "bug-a-boo" or may be b een tagged with such unusual appe ak I ,; We could quote a thousand · t "ass fool 111011 ey . . ' ' b t we prefer to draw the curtam ·cryptic and to the pom Old Boys a thousand fine anecdotes, u ' 1·f h1·s li ttle nam eless un. ' · f a good man s 1 e, f 1 ' Doubtl ess in the history of also on 'that best portion o t f k "ndness and o ove. remembered a~ _s o 1 riod 1904-20] he will include a few of them.

Q .C. [he is wntmg the pe . . . ·th his \\·ork as ' h · ·ust as much 111 1O\·e wi After 40 years of teachmg e is J d ·t t have been for him to give d W know how har 1 mus . . ·t . when he starte · e . . . · we appreciate the spin 111 . ·k on his res1gnat1on ana ' l t l up his lifetime wor . the breach to help our now aep e ec which he volunteered to step mto . t ·' We feel sure that when . . . . 1 ·ty of 'actrng mas e1 . . . .

I ·11 t·11 keep up !us mterest m_ staff m his ongma capac1 d t from Q C 1e w1 s i he finally doest· ·tepar . e11ercry and enthusiasm even at . , nd perhaps. .f 01. I11s '=' educat10na l ac iv1 ) a ' A t· ·t of every sort he lo\·es. anc · t" e to teach c 1vi Y • 1 62 are amazmg, con mu . f. · . . the local cultural circl e . . t d an outstandmg 1gu1e m remams 0- ay . wot·tl1 as been imm easurable. vith us and l11s h b 11 For 44 years heh as een \ h l decades and \,·hen he reached "de overt ese ong ' f . f He has been our c ie gU1 l t . all Guiana We are proud o rouder 1ear 111 · P our centenary there was no . ·r· d ail that is best and . . n who has per som ie c O Id him too , the sm1hng ma h Q C crrow from strength to g O · ·· "' l"'n a th of the roll ca ll lorious in Queen .s C llege ·' who as . seen . . d the rapid increase 111 -~ o st rength, who has w1tnesse . . d the great all-round progress b . t ·ng dimens10ns, an to our present seam- ur s 1 . . h . changed but has been kept Th Old Q c spint as never . we have made. e b h · · all · p ervac1m . g m . flll"'J "' 1ce ·· '·Per vanos cas . us, . alive and. stimulated . . . Ym" ish e has come w1·ti1 us . Few men can claim as per tot chscnmma 1eru . .

M. p·Jcrrim bul none whatsoe\·er can many deep person al adm1re1sdas 111.. ii bbv li'rne for Queen·s College, its . t· . . ned an me O\\ ec . .1 0quaJ hJ.S affec 1011, 11pe evei·vthin ,,. connected wit 1 , o . h t d ·ds for even·one anc1 · gi·\ren heart and soul for nearly traditions and h1 g s an a r ' . h h h ol to wluc 11e 11as ~ . the school- t e scl o J · h ·an never recom J)eJlSP - - 11im or })av · him sufficient If a century anc we w 11c. c quote lum . thus ' he is '·as good as ...... gold, ha tribute.

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It was my fo rtun e to be got h old of by one of those kind creat ures w h ose solemn :iutv it is to see th a t new boys do everything wrong the .first time.

I was (·a rnestly drinking in a ll this f ellow h ad to say wh en two venerable-look ing, white-c lad, cork-hatted superiors cycled into the yard and a li ghted with an impressive s imu lta n eity.

"You see that one in spectacles?'' my f elJ ow confided, " Thafs Mr. Paups, and ever y tim e yo u speak t o him you must say 'please Mr. Paups, Sir,."

I might well h ave bee n h a d by this b ait had not my counsellor con tinued·'Ancl the o n e on th e l eft, he is M r. Boag and you must do the same for him."

Happily, like so many other new b oys, I h ad known of Mr. Pilg rim long before th at day, a nd so I put out my ton gue by way of a parting gesture and .took lea1·e of my friend.

T hus th e good man h ad begun to h elp m e even before he knew it. An d th ere was a little thing w hich hi gh-marked him in my mind in th ose early da ys .

It was to d o wit h my r a incoat: My father h ad p resen ted m e on m y goin g t o College with a r a th er fine coat,-a waterproof, fitted w ith footstraps, elas tic cuffs, a large belt and several superflu ous buttons. All th ese I displayed to th e best advantage by gett ing into my coat with much flourish on rain y days . Ima gine my confus ion, th er efo re, on finding myself universalJy hooted at when I h ad 2xpected t o make a n impression. (The fact was th at th e coat was th en several sizes too big for me and even threatened t o p ass my ankles, so much so that it ,till gives m e a good service to-day!) . Well again, it was Bogus alone w h o alJowed him se lf to be impressed. H e looked it over caref ull y and asked me severa l questions about it unti l I was quite satisfied that l ife was worth living after al l.

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Pythagorr si r" - hopin g, stra ngely enough. th at he would not h ea r.

B·ut he .lid. I ll'as met ll' ith thund er:.. Don't be a boogabo o boy! Stup'cl boy! Because 1,c·ve learnt P yth agoras· th eorem, th e boy wants poor P ythagoras to do everything ! S1Jly boy ! T ell h im. next monkey!' ' . . . and so . . . .

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· 11. lh . was the Rag Play . I do n ot kno1~ whether )·ou chaps have Fma ) ' c1 e_ as we were in our time, but \\·h en I was Ill the sixth . we t,een so ad\~ntu1o~s the School Feed (the Principal preferr ed the n ame S~h ool deci.dfd b t~ ..; eve~,,a better suited the voracious m a nifestation s of. 111)'. fellows ard Socia, u1 d 1·c1 cl I say to have a Rag Play a play th a t 1s, m which t 1c myself) ,_ ~~ t~~ s~aff wouid b e caricatured. W ~ fo und a plot that_.suited our rnPmbci ~ . Old B (Co Francis) came and dema nded from th e P1 mc1pal and purpos.e. an Jave ~1s n~o~ey back, claiming he had discove'.·.ed that t~cy had 111 Staff h i~~n~o thi~g. I to ok precisely th e part of a certam ?llr. Boag. I\ hose tau ght hel crsuacl e th e complainant th at he erred.

By th e Jud1c10u s 1 role t. was td h P exagge ration of such terms as "parallel-lel-lel-lellogramJabounng ~!1 .. 0 aia swee tl y O so nicely!' ' "As good AS- gold:·· by a genero us 1 g~·a :1 f1fi~~ of such terms ~s monkey, boogaboo, assie; by cons tantly punchmg distil bu ., · h ·s ribs stomach chest n eck chin and oth er parts of th e body. 'theexh;rti~~ "~he m~nkey" n~t to. ~ay ··~udder '' and " tree" when h e me~nt by ·" cl "three"· and by r em mdm g him th at I had taught hi s father , I :mothe~d/?t clear to' the sch ool, staff and friends. asse mbled :\·ho my protol}'. Pe ,oon mTh sc h ool roared and I could hardly contam myself either. bu t 1magmc was. te when in the middle of all this I glanced at the foot of the stage, s~'i~~~d of m e,' t o see, ch-uckling aw,iy ~mcontrolledly and \1·eepi ng for joy, ·'Mr. Bo~g·• himself.

These and m a ny other experiences made me "approve of" him and I rather looked forward to being calJed Boogaboo, monkey, e tc., as the "old hands" used to be. I got thi s too, but n ot always as I would h ave wis hed it. One day, for instance, durin g his G eometry class my th ou g hts happened to be far away. They were, in fact ri g ht across the yard in the Biology L ab . where C.I.D. 11·as preparing a beastly test. But I was suddenly shake n by E .O.P .'s rnice saying, ··we will have tl1 e boy Allsopp.·'

Neve rtheless I a l ways think "Mr. B oag·s·· teaching wns flavoured with a h ealth y sen s':! of humour. He wou ld chuckle \\'hen some wag nam ed a tri a ngle EOP and referred to 1t as POE. H e chuck led too when a form-fi\·er, called to the board to resolve a binomial into factors, filled the whole board with a hcadinrr in coconu t -size capitals : "

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In. the year J952, we expect to find E ve L eary presen ting its usual appea1ance, and the "Rue a la S ea \Vac l 's" qu it e u nc h ange d . B ut at the • corn~r o£ _1hom as and Camp Ro ads the n is· going to be a new and. utter] d1ffeten t spec tacle.

Stretching for tw,> hundred and fiftv a ·cl y Thomas R d d d . .., y l s a 1ong . . oa an om m a ted by an im posing structure will b 1 . park-like are ·th th· k e a a1ge . a w1 a 1c d warf hed,;-e running all around and with tropical shrubs and shad e trees lendina t o the whole an t h b a mosp ere at . . once c h aractensilc of and unu sual in British G · Th , . . . .' , uiana . rough the ccn~1 e 1 uns a semi-circular driYeway l( :acling directly to a m ag nificent glass-walled Main Entrance and Sta ir Hall. . From this start~ng point on the gro u 1d floor and with Mr. H eard, its c1tcl11tect, as ou r g uide, let us ex1)lore th1• new Q c Ri'ght 1 1·11 f ron t of us ·• J · .

• · • 1s t 1e pillared Recreat10n H all lar!!e encuo·h [1 3.;' x 54'] t . _ . ~ "' · " o sen·e as 1,the cent1 e for. all mdoo~ _games, a gymna~ium or a miniature rifle ran ge for the cadets .. It 1s brig ht enou g h for this li ecause it will be partlv in gl . and partly rn lattice- wo rk . B ehi nd this ,m the southern side is "the ,at storage clepa~·tmen t, w hich h olds the eye] 28 of e -.rer y form and a seri:~ co; Turni ng east we walk right up th e 210 ft. w a_s_h f ~un ta ms as well. cou1do1 that traverses the entire len ot h cf the ea t . · 0 . . . "' s er n wmg. n our left ,ve 1~1spect first of all the w ide \\·orkshor,. well -equipped with lathes and other mechanical tool s.. • Next to this· ,·tre the g1.ea t l a J)Ora ,Lones · · . with a tt<1ched balance room for the advanced ;::,hysics and Biology classes . ust 3 outside the last named is the botanv-ga 1 dens for the co ll ecti·on . t. .. , · f · " or cu 1 1\ :.ltlOJ~ o s~)ec1111ens.

Fro m here we get :i glimpse of the playing fields , ~ut "e must not let them distract us-jus1 Yet. Turning back we explore lie e(1ually lon g western wing . More laboratories ·f or the .' t ·1.. elem t · , sc1cn 1 1c en _15 very prom inent, stretch bef Jre us-the general chemist . bborato n es, a bal an ce room and an aclvcnced laboratory workshop : l~e Camp R_oad encl are the readin g room and the librar:,· [placed oi~ the ,.,1uund 11001 because lhe tremendous weid1t of books would b t for the first floor]. ~ · e oo muc 11

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The first on the West is the lon g a\\·a ited prefects' roo m.

All face east, there are no rear winds to cau se chills, are well lighted and possess special non-glare glass-panes along the entire length of the wings; all are perfectly air cond ition ed and are so und-proof - or at least as_ much as is p ossible in a school. For the fi,·e form -rooms in each wing, (there are ten on this floor) and h elp in g to isolate the room from noise. are fo ur cloak-rooms each 2'.:'.ft. x 9 ft. (nothing is on a small scale here); and to control the rushin g in of the school ·Jierd' are four southern staircases, two for each win g. At the encl of each wing is a giant 63ft. x 27ft. lect ure HaTI . The western H all is used as a n examination room and the eastern is a geography room boasting (apart from faci li ties for movie projection) a wide, op en observation deck.

Walking back to the main Hall with tiring footsteps (\\·e have co,·ered a lot of distance) our guide points out the Dinin g Hall in the south 3ection of the main area. The dimensions 72ft. x 45ft. x 18ft. speak for lhemselves, and to it is attached the kitchens and pantry and th e inevi table but much modernised Tuck-shop. As we pass back through the main Hall to the staircase, our g uide draws our attention to the height of the hall - it is no less than 28ft., and for a ,·ery good reason. ::ts we clisco,·er on mounting to the top floor. For all round the main section extends a

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b::ilcony, cantilevered out on th e western end and lookin g do wn into the auditorium , forming not on ly an idea l point of vantage for the "over. fl ow··, if that is possible, but also a sort of upper box arrangement for witn ess in g theatrical productions. At the very top of the staircase is the Principal's study with a small balcony outside of it. From this balcony rises the lofty flagstaff with the Union Jack and the Queen's College coiours at its head . On the sa me block are the administrative offices and a . wide ante-chamber for use as a waiting-room. To left and right 3tretch ten more form-rooms indentical with those below, ?vhile in the far east is the History hall and in the far west the even larger art studio.

Our guide now leads us via one of the . smaller southern staircases to lhe wide area behind the school. This he informs us is modelled generally on the plan of the Botanic Gardens. There is a main paved roadway to the ga rages for the Masters but on either side are lawns and shrubberies. The stranger will have to be told that this is a school and he will be frowned upon if he calls it a 'compound'. Tennis Courts for Masters and S enior s are laid out here and there, and at the eastern end is ample . space fo r third form gardening and the Zoological menagerie.

The twin cabbage-palms retain their ancient dignity, though the playing fie lds have been extended far back to where the pond once was and there is now extra space for · a h ockey or football field.

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t students have one of tbe finest school build in gs in these and t h e presen . · d parts and one of which all Gmanese can be prou .

Those of us who were born too early to be students_ h ere can at least kn ow that in these ideal surroundings ~he golden trad1t10ns of the school carried on and there w ill contmue to be. are b oun d to be '·Eternal honour to its name!''

* This is only the year 1948 and in this stern presen~ reality,_ \Ve can · · the hall of Dido) "feed our mmds on idle poronly (like the T ropn m ' d ld ·t ,, (see Frontispiece). But even in this weary and unsettle wor tra1 u~de 1 . still realised The energetic Principal and staff, the eversome 1 ea s are · ffi · T ·t t' g Old Bovs' Association had to labour first to get o cia1 r ecogm 1011 ag1 a m . . b ·11 ·ng then to get Lon e1den P ark ear-marked for of our clann to a new u1 c I , b t t se then to set the wheels moving, and then to get Go\·ern~ent . o se ou_~ u the tremendous sum required. The r ow of glisten ing white pillars, ~~~ ~um and buzz of day long activ ity, and the encouraging. reports from the Public Work s cannot but bring some satisfaction to theJr h ea rts and inspiration to our own.

Our tour is nearly ended and as we trud ge back along the paths\ to th e main recepti on hall, the architect gives us some illuminating answers to the questions with which we ply him. We learn that the building has a capacity of five hundred plus, avera ging twenty-five to a form.

The school is run on the old parallel system, each Master teaching first one form and then its counterpart. · The sixth form is at last divided into upper and lower and now takes on a more distinctly pre-university function. The dinin g hall serves those who find it more convenient to remain at schoo l at midday and for special occasions such as rainy weather or Hou se Socials.

No, there is not goin g to be a boarding school! The College is too heavil y subsidised as it is and circumstances do not warrant any additional expenditure. Nor can we yet claim the luxury of a swimming pool.

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~rhe ,\tlne of Physical '11i·aining

who won the event , but also to th e one who had the best style and the best

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physiq~e. . t ous games and running distance races, boys Before play111g s renu h . l t . . ractise some form of body buildin g such as regular p ys1ca ~a.mshou!d p . freehand exercises at home, or practismg ing 111 a_ pro::a~~m;:::~~ according to a well-plan ned course to progressi~e the h:art in ord~r to cope with the extra ":'ork imposed u~OJ'. strengthe . . ght training includm cr hand-balanc m.£< lt. If a course of progressive wei . followed' faithfulh~ it will be fo und and some work on the pbarladllel ba;~~/~ound ation for any' kind of athletics. t 0 be the best way to ui a so " . I l'ft " • · er When a fellow exercises wi·th weights he , does not become a . weig t1t. 1 l'ft 'Id A weight lifter is one who specializes m cer am I b but a body u1 er. . h l'ft' · s . cl t li'ft i'n contests and gain great strength . Weig t i mg is a 111 or by er itself o sport and does not necessarily have anyt h'mg to d o w1'th body

Some parents consider that physical exercise or body building as a whole is a waste oI time, or a foolis h pastime which robs the youn gster of much needed time which mi g ht have been devoted to study. This is a great mistake: directly there is no gain, but in the long run a health~boy will have a great advantage over one who .has spent his life cramming.

Howe\·er, as in every thing else there must be moderation; the body must not be developed at the expense of the mind.

The H eadmaster of Lincoln School in En gland conducted an experiment for several months to test th e va lue of phys ical training as applied to 1he boys under his care, and the conclusion reached was that brai ns are sh:irper if bodies are fit.

Two forms were taken, makin g sure tha t neither had any advantage over the other. The first had five periods of physical trainin g a week an d th e other, extra sessions in Latin, French, Mathematics and English. After two terms the latter form was superior in Hi story, Latin and French but was far behind the P.T. form in English , Geography, Mathe,natics, Science, Art and in the Intelligence Test. The P.T. form enjoyed better health, were better conducted and disciplinecj and above all, pos:;essed a higher degree of natura l intelligence.

To atta in a reasonable amount of success in sports or any sort of body l..Juilcling, one must lead a clean, high-thinkin g life, putting aside all injurious habits. That alone is an incentive. You must teach yourself to concentrate and be patient because success in Athletics is not attained overnight. An athl ete cann ot affo rd to be lazy but must be energetic and active d urin g his training. AU these qualities are essential factors for success in an:v sport or profession later in life. Once they are developed, they can be applied to study or anything else you may wish to undertake. The youngster taking part in athletics is guard ing his health and easing his p.:i ren ts' minds, by developing a foundat ion that will serve him well thro ughout his life. The mind must not be developed at the expense of the bodv; in fact, the physiq ue mu st be deve loped in due proportion in order to relieve the mind of some of the extra s train imposed upon it.

NO\vadays the most pleasant way of exercising is found in the playin g of ou tdoor games, and in tak in g part in Athletics. E very schoolboy shou ld indulge in some game such as football, tenn is, cricket, etc. Ho wever. these games, espec ially football, are quite stren uous and should not be practised more than three times a · week, because the body must be given rest in u!·cler t.o recuperate and build up new tissues. Games provid e the player with an endurance which is very desirable, but not with a fine physique.

H()\vever, if he had built up a good muscular physique before playing str en· u0us games, he would have just as much endurance and wo uld look more like nn nthlete. The Greeks clid not gi ve a prize only to the competitor

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1 k' d f Athlet ics W . hts are being used as basic training for a 1 m s ? .. e1gW .

Iler who broke 67 World Records in swimmmg when 111 Johnny eissmu , · · F k Stranahan h' rime has always used wei ghts for his trammg. ran ' t~s p a k' American· golfer is an enthusiastic weight lifter capable of . \.er c300 lbs Lester Ste~rs, who h olds the World's High J~mp record Je~ m g .' cr hei ht of 6ft. llins .. trains with weights, his farnun te with the bemg amaz1!1b . g squa t s w1'ti1 200 lbs . J oe Louis is a man exercise Jumpmg d who . has ti 1 used wei"hts to improve his punchin g power a nd all-roun str eng l. a way~ t bd t kno w that the str ength of nations has always History s u en s . f · T The de ended to a great extent upon the physical fitn ess o its c1 izens.

P_ t Greeks who raised intellectual and cultural development to _a never b~fore equalled, were devotees of physical culture. ~hei~ bodies were considered as imp.ortant as their minds, and reached a eve which stands alone in the history of mankind . . .

Re ardless of the position a man holds in life he WJ!l be able to !ill g · t· and healthy body. EYerv hum an bemg i~ be{Je~ 0it~e ) ~~i::s;; ~!a~1~n;f ph ys ica l training to build _a strong mind ~11 oau strong body and to make the most out of the life ,,·h1ch 1s his.

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The Editors wish to acknowledge the receipt of the following magazines and to express their thanks to the schools c_oncern ecl: The St. Vincent Grammar School Magazme.

The Lodge School Record.

St. Mary's College Annual.

St. Stanislaus College Ann ual.

The Bishops' High School Journal.

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Onr Debt to Pioneers of Electricity.

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In days gone by, when lightning flashed, men quaked in mortal fear of the so-called "fire of heaven'', the weapon of the terrible Thunderer which lesser gods might not touch. To-day, on the contrary, experiencing Jittle or n o fear, we turq on and off our electric lights; and this fact bears sufficient testimony to the great progre_ss man has made in electrical discoveries, from the early civilized ages to the ·present era.

Let us, for a moment, contemplate the various types of electrical apparatus we have at our disposal.

When the occasion arises, we use Lhem, but without the slightest thought of their origin. We simply take it for granted that they are there for our use.

But do we realise how strenuous were the efforts of the men who put their hearts and minds into discovering the secrets of electricity?

Consider the electric light we use in our homes at night. This does n ot affect our eyes as an oil lamp or a candle does, but gives us a bright, cl ear light by which we can do our studies. The reading lamp adds to our comfort and convenience. To provide us with amusement, and put us in touch with world affairs we have our radio.

Then, there is our telephone, which brin gs us messages from friends and acquaintances in our city. We toast our bread in our electric toaster, preserve and keep fresh our fruit and meat in our electric refrigerator, cook our meals on our electric hot-plate or stove, and do a great many other things, in which we use the magic powers of electricity which man has adapted to his ow n use.

Th ese in vention s are the rewards of the pa tient, steady thought and expe riment of men like Marconi, the great Italian pioneer of wireless t elegraphy, which is, and has been of exceedin gly great advantage to ships durin g the past years of ruthless war. But h ow many men besid es Ma rc oni h ave laboured to di scover the various secrets of electricity'? l\fa ny have,-but the efforts of comparatively few have been crowned ,vith success. The successful men have gain ed recognition, but the efforts of m any who have la boured zeal ously ha,·e been fru stra ted.

Eac h stud ent of elect rici ty, eac h pioneer in to its secr ets, is worthy of r eme mbran ce, for each in his own way has helped to provide us with electrical appa ratus.

S o, w h enever we " turn on th e r adio" or '"phone" someone , we sh oul d remember with gratit ud e the noble pio neers who contribu ted to the comfort and co nveni en ce w e experience to-rlay fr om the use of electrici ty .

A LAMENT OF THE PREP. FORM (as related by a Preposition, and .h alf-translated from the vernacular by his fath er).

We fell into line, we bro~e no ,'rule, Every shining shoe was 111 step F or the Governor's visit to Queen's1 to-day But he never came near the Prep.

We looked for the hour with keen delight, A half-holiday anticipatin g ; Our necks and ears were scrubbed so bri ght Th'epidermis was disintegratin g.

With young h earts keen, and fingers clean , Our shirts (for a wonder) white, . · t h e C rown and the Fla "' \Ve saw the car with 1 Bu t of Excellence - never a si ght.

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Yes, the Governor visited Queen's to-day With a smile and a jaunty step, . I d the drains, And he looked at the Lab., and the Sixt 1 , an But he neYer came over to Prep.

So I dumped New Boys in a .red-ants nes', Rubbed blobs of mud in their eye, "compress", Then, w1'th temper cooled by a. doubled Put a knot in the Old School Tie. Notes for the Ignorant. ". ·t , '·P rep" etiquette r eco gnizes n o '"l\'1iss' ' ... F orm- l\·llS 1ess. '·s·, ,, Dr. , th an the Principal's. Mas ters are all ns th names o e1 H osp1·t a1. . t dent of the Mental Smith _ S upenn en '·Compress'' bounds' '.

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.A.n 0 Yerlanc1 Trip to I{aieteur Fall.

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The Governor is most upset To hear the Prep is in a fret, That all their faces still· are wet Because despite the F .Ms threats He never visited his pets

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On Tuesday morning, 13th August, 1946, our party of 9 \Vhich included Messrs. E. 0. Pilgrim, G. Lighton, D. A. Smith (Masters), W. H. G. Allsopp, A. G. E. Fung-a-Fatt and myself (students) embarked on the Demerara River Steamer, "R. H. Carr" which lay alongside Sproston ·s A.B.C. Wharf.

The organiser who was destined to lead us through thick and thin during the next nine days, bemoaned the dropping out at the last moment of four members of the fairer sex. .

The weather was all that co uld be ~esired and there was every indication that the trip to Wismar would be a pleasant one. In a short while, however, a contract Bridge and chess enthusiast who frequently reminded us of Humpty Dumpty in the strenuous days ahead , tEcruited players from

To see their faces shining bright Their shirts for once a good off-white And even if their hands were inky The labs and drains were even stinky.

And why should these have been preferred And shared the joy with the common herd Yet for the Prep not even a word .

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But the Governor will make amends Some day before the Greek calends; And still he thinks had he come that clay To see the little ones at play, ·

It would in a way have been a pity For he would ne\'er then have had Their most delightful ditty.

Government Hou se, 13th February, 1943.

our company.

The meals oi1 board the steamer were good, and often during the hectic days which followed, we cast our thoughts fondly back to these.

• Arriving at \Vismar in the late afternoon, we trekked over to the Christianburg Rest House, about a mile distant, returnin ; to the steamer for dinner around 8 p.m. and doing full justice to the repast pro\·ided .

Back to the Rest House and slumber, on ly to be awaken ed an hour later by the sound of a siren, at which someone shamelessly guessed the time to be 5 a.m. Shortly after, a bauxite steamer passed b:, on its way to Mackenzie. We ret urned to sleep and rose imbued , full of a spirit of adventure, little dreaming that our next sleep would be at Garraway Stream twenty-two hours later. At Wismar we boarded the locomotive

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couple of hours later were at Rockslone on t our boat was waiting. Shortly before 10 o'cloc a twenty minutes' run, our organiser ordered th some fowls left behind at Rockstone.

The whole of that day was spent on the E ssequebo and it was already eYening when we passed Potaro Mouth, reaching Tumatumari around-9 p.m. We certainly got a cold reception here; and it was the first of many setbacks which, although uncomfortable and distinctly irritating at times, were eventually very much offset by the climax of the trip ... . .. KAIETEUJI. The watchman coolly informed us that the lorry had been there to meet us at six-thirty p .m ., but that the driver ·h ad crossed the river and would not r eturn that night. After much clanging of steel in order to attract the driver's attention he eventually tµrn ed up , and after about a mile's jaunt we boarded the lorry and left at midnight for Garraway Stream, fourteen miles distant, where we ar rived in a couple of hours. The atmosphere was cold in the forest but at the stream Rest House it was more intense; but, since we were dead tired, sleep came easily. . The impression one got of the lorry ride was that it demonstrated a third degr.ee method of k eepin g one awake.

THURSDAY, 15th: All up early and joined the lorry for Kan garuma, seYen miles distant, w here we boarded the boat MIVI. Considerable delay followed as the small outboard motor barely spluttered. The troubl~ was eventually located and, but for a couple of minor breakdowns later, it carried us on to A matuk view, where it was decided to halt as i t was not practicable to r each Tukeit that night. Hammocks and even the floor were glad ly utilised and next morning, FRIDAY 16th : we re-embarked and from this point our motor troubles ceased . Crossing the Amatuk portage we joined another boat atop the fall and continued to vVaratuk where we endured another p ortage, an oth er boat atop Waratuk and th en the final lap to Tukeit. On this stretch, gli mpses of Kaieteur could be seen in the distance adding further zest to the party.

We arri ved at Tukeit in the afternoon and made ourselves comfortable in the Rest House.

With the noise of the Tukeit rapids in our ears we went to sleep and awoke on SATURDAY 17th : al l excited for the climb to Kaieteur. \Ive started out eagerly, the three students well ahead and the others straggling along at various intervals behind. Fun g-a-Fat and I did the climb in seventy-five minutes while Allsopp, who strayed from the terminu s, _eventually got there. Arrived at the top, everyone was aghast at the height and amazed at the beauty of Kaieteur, and -cameras clicked from all an gles. The water was cool and delicious, slaking the the thirsl oI a few. Enough h as been written describing the wonderful .sight. but fail to convey a true picture and it has to be seen in order for a lifelong picture to be indelibly stamped on the human photo ncgati\'e ...... rncmory. Thal clay was spent between the Fall and the Rest House , a very unpretentious shack. In the aftern oon , we wended our way clown to Tukeit, making much better time on account of the steep

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. le t well and next mo rnin g, SUNDAY certamlyths ph'ke to the F all the others r emaindescent. That night we ' · "ded on ano er 1 "th 18th, a few o f us d eci_ . t th Fall in fifty-ei ght mmutes w1 . at Tukeit. On this climb, I got o e .

1ng · t · Allsopp second in seventy-five mmu es. . . .

19th all aboard on the return tnp. makrng Next mormn g. MONDAY ' h re we r eceived a setback as the a quick run through_ to K angarumah \~ i~ did its fanbelt was useless. Me_slorry had not yet arrived a1\:~v~~n'ta c~1 anoth~r lorry, but meanwhile ram sengers were sent on foot . d thunder wer e at their ,vorst. The poured down and the lightnmg ant h d some sleep in whatever position . various members of the party sna c 'el k the nex t mornin g TUESDAy . 'out an d was thev could, and w h en ar·ound 2 .30 ohc oc·d every one hurried t 'h the lorry's welcome horn wa~ ear h, ' t1 · me Some of the par ty 2o ' ' G Stream 111 an ours · . . , b k transported to arraway d b. ak after signing the v1s1tors oo ' snatched a short nap , but at ay lr e , d 6 am en route to Rockstone St . by launc 1 aro un · · we left Garraway l earn R k t in the late afternoon and con. T t mari We reached oc s one ~ via uma u w· . wh1"ch was reached at , .45 p.m. t' ued 011 to 1smar . rn was left at the station while the At Wismar the surplus ~a~ga~~ Chrislianburg Rest House where members of the party trud ge o 1e . . served around 10.30 p .m. . . . dmne1 was . ~EDNESDAY 21st, and lcavm g w ~smm Rising early next morRmng, \1 lecl 1·11 Geor geto,,·n at 3.45 p.m . Taxis . 1 k b the CAR we anc . d , at 7.45 o c oc . y . ' t' . cl but none the worse fo r ou r nme ays rolled us back to our homes, n e out in g.

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··Do You Kno w Your British Guiana?''

'ITUNI.'

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Where is this place sit uated?

What is il?

What happens there?

Even to many average British Guianese these questions would present puzzles. The most information t~ey might be able to give is that Ituni h as some connection with bauxite mining. For your enlightenment, come with me on a trip to this silvan district, nestling so peacefully amid the beauties of nature.

At last the bow of the steamer cuts the water gracefully. The time is 8.15 a.m. on a Saturday morning and th e " R.H. Carr" has just pulled out fr om the Sproston's Stelling, beginning its sixty-five miles' voyage up the Demerara River to Wismar. A short while la ter, the steamship has negotiated a bend in the river and G eorgetown disappears. The Air Base, Atkinson Field, is the fi rs t stop on the route. Mails and several passenger s are transhipped to little boats in the river. As we journey on, many more stops are mad e; and, \.vhen you are nearly wearied with viewin g the bea utiful hills and trees standing on both banks, the steamer reaches its destination , Wismar, at 4.00 p.m .

'0l e are rowed across th e river to Macken zie, where the night is spent . At Mackenzie, rising up before our eyes are the P ower H ouse, which supplies the whole neighbourhood with electricity; the Mechanic Shop. where engines and trucks are r epaired; the wharf, at wh ich the sh ips are loaded ; and numerous trucks waiting with th eir loads of ba uxite.

The fo llowin g Sunday morning at 8.00 a.m. , we boarded the train for Ituni and in a few minutes puff off on the last stage of our journey. We catch a glimpse of the Air Port at Mackenzie, and for some time travel with the river in sight. Th en the train pursues a south-easterly direction , passing between delightful sandhills, wonderfully coloured in brown, red or gre:-·. All too soon, this thirty-six miles· journey comes to an end and the train pulls in at Ituni .

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the lofty trees and thick undergrowth of the forest. The dwellings, numberin g about a hundred, are all painted in white. There is a red and cream coloured police station; also a Post Office, the only two-storeyed buildin g in that community. The Ration Store, where all foodstuffs and clothin g can be bought, is opposite the combined Club and Cine ma; while the hospital, a small but well-equipped place, is near the h ouses of the Manager and Chief Engineer of the bauxite mine.

There is a main road running from one end of the settlement to the other, and several more cross this at intervals. The P ower Plant, erected near the Post Office produces electricity for the who le locality. During the day the place is very hot and at ni ghts very cold .

The men who work in the mines, and their families. constitute the residents of Ituni. Hardly anybody walks abroad in the daytime, and there is solitude everywhere. The only maj or centre of amusement is the Club though on Tuesday and Saturday nights there a re flim- sho ws at the cinema.

However, nearly every family owns a radio.

At the hospital, which .has no in-patient ward, there are two nurses and a dispenser. Once a week the doctor from Mackenzie pays a visit.

The main road in Ituni leads to the bauxite mines lying about a mile away. Every morning a train brings workmen from Mackenzie and lorries filled with these proceed to the mines.

There are three shifts a day. Near to the place of operation, the Mechanic Shop is situated.

In it are engines, bulldozers and diesels awaiting the skill of the engineers lo bring them into wo rking order again. All round are hills of bauxite, some of ,,·hich have been worked out already . The ore is of varying colour, from light yello w to red. When the bauxite is loosened from a hill, a line of trucks is filled with fairly large junks of the ore and these trucks are then drawn to Mackenzie, where their contents are loaded into ships bound for forei gn lands.

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Yet what a peaceful place to retire to from the noise ancl bust le of the town. The district is hillv and healthy; and livin g, as it were, in the heart of the forest, one i~ free to enj oy all the healing powers of ~ature.

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That according to Mow ger, all Skeetah has in his head is a cold.

That at Weston House Feed the Bittle after consuming one dozen "cokes" and t wo dozen small cakes, remarked: "Gentlemen, I have not yet begun to fight ." *

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That Lipticus is a strong advocate of co-education.

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That after a certain dance in the New Amsterdam Town Hall a damsel remarked of Damodar: "Man or P ost? "

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That members of the committee of the literary and Dramatic Society showed a stroke of genius in choosing the 5th form representative lo be chairman of the "nonsense" even ing. :;:

That there has been a genera l cry of lamentation since the green-coaled element in the Science labs. has been reduced .

That Jerry made a silent invoca ton to the gods before demonstrating a jump at a recent fire practice .

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The House of 1,000 l3argaius.

Tho.l since Arak's arrival, the '·silence room" h as become a silence room.

C .DIP Sn,EET .

That al the Q.C. Dance, Tele looked at a certain female of the species an woefully said: "Would I were taller.·•

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The ,./frmada."

LILLEY,

IV.B.)

Urged by a lust to roam, I ran away from home ' On the dark and wintry night of Hallowe'en; And when the New Year's day was past, I had shipped before ·the mast, In the warship of Her Majesty, the Queen.

While the fleet at Plymouth lay, Upon a summer's day, We heard the rolling beat of many drums , And we heard the sound of feet, People ran into the street, To hear the cry, "The Great Armada comes!"

The drums were beating still, As we climbed upon the hill.

To see the great Armada sailing on; But at dawn we put to sea, With the galleons on our lee, All eager for to fight the Spanish Don. The Spanish ships were caught, All through the clay we fought, 'Till at night the Spaniards lay, off Calais town; Then eight fire-ships quick we bent, And , well blazin g they were sent To blow the Spaniards up , or burn them clown.

The Dons were forced to flee, And they sailed out to the sea, So the English ships bore clown to start the fray; Great was the Spaniards' cost, For six fighting ships were lost , When the Gr ea t Armada turned to sail a wa~- Towards the North they \v ent, And every sail was bent; • We fou ght until th e Yorks hire coast was reached .

Wlien we left our Spanish foes, An d a roarin g ga le a rose ; Many Spanish ships w ere s unk, and many beached .

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L o·ve .P . ... ,vuess , "f/,,o .I" 1r

By C. 0. PERRY -

Form V

Glorious vision to behold, Love for me your eyes foretold!

O, sweet, I knew you were to be Regardless of all, all for me.

If ever it chance that we should part, Another for you, 'twould grieve my h eart.

Decree, 0 God! To make ours deep , Unite and bless and Iever keep, Keep us ever trusting, ever gay, Ever in each other's thoughts to stay.

Lament on The D eath /

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a Clnid.

(tran slation of Andre Chenier's '' Sur la mart chm enfa.11(') (BY RUPERT

L.

EDWARDS)

Poor guiltless babe, thy life on earth is o'er, We love thee dearly, who could love thee more?

An image and a dream art thou to me, A dream which I shall keep in memory.

Goodbye, weak child slipped out from our embrace; Goodbye, dear one who ne'er again shall face These earthly trials. No more shalt thou be seen As harvesters leave the town where once they've been By my side in the country.

No more shalt thou be seen in father's care, As with th y feet and hands and sides half-bare; Thou treacl~t the flowers with which nymphs of the Seine Crown through the years the coasts of Lucienne.

The car which once was destined for thy play And taken out by faithful hands in May, No more shall plough the meadows and the shore.

Thy looks and speech and murmurs will no mor e In us arouse anxiety.

No more, no more, with joyous cries shall we Receive the cooings of our in fant child as he Li sps those sweet soun ds which he alone can hear.

Goodbye, my child, and banish a ll your fear.

There is a land where all shall meet again , And th ere, my child , there will be no mor e pain.

And to this land e' er now, rny dear, Th:,· moth er n ow turns h er jea lous eyes.

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'Late ;_11oon.'

(BY

L.

THOM

VI)

A still soft breeze whispers through the tree-tops; A wail as from departed spirits drops Full 011 the silent evening, lighted by The silvery moonlight, streaming from on hi gh .

Sailin g above the trees o'erspread by night, The brilliant moon sends rays of glittering light Down to brighten the lofty shadowy trees Swaying and rustling in the gentle breeze.

Oh the supreme beauty of this late moon!

Oh the wondrous li ght that must die so soon!

I know that I can never see again, Such splendour. Tell me! Was it shed in vain?

1Jemt(y , ff/it, a11d Qold.

(BY D

ROBINSON,

IV B .)

In her bower a ,,·idow dwelt, At h er feet three suitors knelt , Each adored the widow much , Each essayed her heart to touchOne had wit, and one had gold, And one was cast in beauty's mould.

First appeared the handsome man , Proudl y peeping o'er her fan , Red his lips, and white his skin.

Could such beauty fail to win?

Then stepped forth the man of gold, Cash he counted, coin he told , Wealth, the burden of his tale.

Could such golden prospects fail?

Then the man of wit and sense Moved h er with his eloquence, Then she looked up w ith a sigh Now she blushed, she knew not why.

Then a tear was on her cheek, Now she smiled to hear him speak.

Beauty vani shed, gold departed, Wit h ad won lhe tender hearted.

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Dream .

(BY 0. R. DATHORNE III)

As the evening sun is setting, I love to sit bes id e the sea, And hear the church bells as they' re rin gin g, Bringin g lonely notes to. me.

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O'er the rippling waves they're call in g.

By-gone days come back to m e; Lon ely, peaceful days are flittin g, Drifting o'er my memory.

Pleasa nt dreams awaken round me Of my happy years gone by, While fle eting glimpses bright I see Of a land beyond the sky.

The spring of yo uth is dead within me.

And my end is drawing close In wrinkled age myself I see, Withered as lhe fad ed rose.

" Th e 73roo{."

BY N. A. VALZ.

Year by year and day by day.

The rippling brook goes on its way.

It rolls the li ttle rocks along, Singing its usual rumbling song.

Treading its own and self willed ,,·a,· -' Year by year, and day by day, So let's go along and take life's tumble, Like the little brook, no pause no grumble.

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"Daw11 ."

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(BY I. R. LAM VI)

And now at last th e fii~st grey streaks of dawn Break forth across the still and starry sky ; A curling mist enfolds the grassy lawn , And trees appear as phantoms to the eye.

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NICK -BURROWES,

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snow is goin g, floods are flowin cr · "'' sweet birds sincrb now it's time for spring

The waking birds await the approaching fire Tha t drives before him all the shade of night, And wild creatures of the night retire To hid e their crimes from the revealing light.

The cattle are grazin b> cr The sun is blazing; The daffodil's gaily swing, For now it's time from sprin g.

All h ail ! oh dew that openeth every fl ower!

Oh dawn that runs before the light of day!

With thee there comest love, and joy, and power, And hopes of better life than yesterd ay .

The rabbits are playin g, The horses are neigh in cr · The happy birds are on"''the win rr F b• or now it's time fr om spring.

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COLLIN S.

You see him oft, alone, with abstract air, Restrained, reserved, with eyes a litt le sad.

None knows his heart is e'er upon the gad Of skied amb ition, yearning long to tear A virgin scroll from the Mu ses' hand, there To pour forth the unborn but livin g gush Of hi gh creation-sprung from dreams that rush Around the brain and prompt him on to dare The uttermost. H e ever seeks to DO, To give to man a work of grandeur , vext Never by your slights, nor ceasin g ,to pursue .

The perfect just beyond the clutch, perplext Only by that prong'cl urge that bids unseen "Do thou achieve-or rest no more serene".

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.....\. Yonn°b Olcl Boy llenu~1nbers.

(BY R. C.

SMITH)

IT was seven years ago when I first entered the precincts of Queen's College. That day will always rem ain fresh in my memory.

Queen's College, a place I had heard of since my early childhood, a place where I had always lon ged to be enrolled as a piJpil. Ah' at last my dream had come true-I was a Q .C. boy! · I looked around me. I regarded the boys with interest, noted the expression on their faces. Curiously enough, every countenance told a story of its own. Some faces showed keen observation, some profound intelli gence, while others had expressions of blank indifference and even of ignorance. It was not very difficult to distinguish the old timers from the newcomers, however.

One might have observed on the face of a newcomer an expression of intelligence, or one of indifference or ignorance, but there was always, in addition, an unmistakable trait of vivid cmiosity n ot to be found on the faces of the older pupils.

Bang' Bang! Bang' The sound of the bell interrupted my observavons.

I. along with other newcomers, was directed by the older pupils to proceed to my form room. After roll call, we went up to the Hall for Assembly.

Morning assembly at Queen's is a sacred occasion, durin g which strict silence is s upposed to be observed.

I imagine that it is for this very reason that the Hall, during Assembly, is the noisiest part of the school.

Prefects were here, there, and everywhere, trying in vain to preserve order among boys, to many of whom the very word "order" was anathema. Then the masters began to ascend the stairs, singly or in pairs, with grave Emel austere countenances and in long black gowns .

The hubbub ceased-there was only a slight murmur now. Soon after, there were footsteps and a characteristic cough. The murmuring ceased, silence reigned; the "big chief" was approaching his platform .

Prayers were said (or rather mumbled ; then the hymn was sung. Shrill trebles blended with unmelodious baritones. The Principal made a short address, dismissed us, and we all made our way (somewhat precipitately) to our respective form rooms, where we were interviewed by our form masters and sent home.

Thus, readers, ended my first day at Queen's-a clay forever vivid in my remembrance, a day on which I will always look back with feelings of great pleasure and deep satisfaction, as being one of the happiest in my life.

My College life had now begun. Even as I write, it is not without a sensation of regret that I realise that those clays are over, never to return.

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It is with great amusement that I recall the wild. pranks of my formma tes a nd I , little brats without a single care, enJoymg .to the utmost every moment of our you~g ~ives, working little 7.~d c~n?,g less .. Now the prefects I Can truly realise how m1sch1evous we all were- iaggmg harrassing the masters. Bu t we could not have sue h "f un " _w1"th ou t and paying a price for (t.

Detentions were frequent, and who said there wasn't a caning now and then?

Days lengthened into months, months into years. We were gradually growing up-at least, some of us were. We pass~d from for_m to form, becoming less playful, more seriot~s. The Jumor Cambridge Ex~m came and went. The School Certificate approached, came and went like the Junior . As fifth-formers, we all studied hard for the School Certificate, althou gh some "bright sparks" might have been inclined to overdo it.

Those of us who were content to terminate our college careers after completing the fifth form left. Others, who wished to asce~d yet one more · rung on the ladder of knowledge, sought to enter the sixth form.

The sixth form! It is with very pleasant thoughts that I recall the days I have spent in the "dasse de philosophic''. Only one who has experienced the great pleasure of being a member of the sixth can imagine what two or three years' sojourn in this form is like. Anyone who has left college in the fifth has failed to enjoy what is best in college life. The distinction of being a sixth-former is one to which every Q .C. student should as_p ire, and of which he should be proud . A sixth-former·s position is u111que.

He has completed his secondary education and has entered upon the threshold of a uniYersity education. In short, he is really out of school.

He is no longer compelled to struggle with subjects which may be utterl y distasteful to him. He chooses his favourite subjects and specialises in them . Moreover, he enjoys certain enviable privileges. He suffers no more impositions or detentions. The Principal's cane holds no more fears for him. He has at his disposal many "study periods" per week - ·'free periods" would be a more accurate description. If he is conscientious, he feels that it is his duty to guide the younger members of the school in the right path, and by virtue of his own example, to maintain the morale and reputation of his school.

Now that I am out of school, I cannot help but thank my Alma Mater for the excellent training she has given me, and I am sure that all who have emerged from her protecting wings will join with me in this expression of gratitude. A new Queen's College is now about to be built. and (hose who are coming after us will have the privilege of being taught in a bigger and better building. I sincerely wish that that privilege could have been mine also. However, the thought that it is not the building, but really the tradition which inspires all Q.C. students with pride in their school, gives me some consolation.

Keep it up, Q.C. !

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" The Barbados Tour." (by F . R. WILLS)

'd bl amount of discussion d d by a cons1 era e Like all such tours it was. prccc e. " in the selection of a sufficiently repre-. .b . l'on th e chief difficulty bem,, ··ly limited numbers. After and de l i e1a i ' . . nsicleration the necessa1i . on·scntative te a m takm g rntr° l~o w e igh ed twenty-four boys were decided up . th e matter h a d b een care u y . . I R Rahaman, H., Winter, A ard C. A., L eal, H. I ., Bacchus, P. \{ ~ngBisho;: A. F., Klautky, S. R., A. B .,g Dr;yton, H., Forbes, P ./K.G~~b~:~~h, . A. Janki, N. J., Ramphal, ;· ~-., ·cl k S Marks , D . A., T::in,,, l C O Chan. L. C .. Boland, . ' G01 Y , ·• l L A Sam E. L .• Tulloc 1 , . ·• Ph ang. C. D ., Kawal' . ., ' :rnrl Wills, F. R. Messrs. 0. M. H arper and b e accompan ied by two Masters, Thev were to . they were to be.

L E . D~w, under whose surveillance . n of Thursday, August 7, when we We were in gay spirits on i1:~t:11eno:azing upon the sea of faces belo\~ ~ ' ff th e faithful and kind hear .ec. . l the rail of the F.M.S . Due I 1nec h d omc to see us o , . mres lh e faces of th ose who a ctl . and sisters and friends; there were pro g~ er . oarents and bro 1 e 1s f few parents of the youn

·G.

~: :;: a:~\~;re were th~;~n~:;~-~~c~:Ut~~!:~~;!;;s t: ~rush yourhteeth ~n~~o~·\;~; remind Aubrey about is m01 . ' m embers of the tea m.

•o to bed" and " please, boys, you mAust th boat slowly cleared the h arbour J..\de ..; ' - " D ea r people! s e • and the ir km h e forgets so eas1 1y. d' . . h cl encrgv would a 11 ow u~ fl as our 1m1111s e · 1 sa ng for them as :sd1 y the gathering dusk. faces gr:idua ll y fa e m . d we had' What moments of unrestr ame The trin to Barbados! What\ ftuhn last ech~es of th e sch ool song w en: dymg · l cl · s t set out anc c · separation from 1..iu "hter! W e 1a Jl1 . t k· bl, · orrow that accomp anies . in ~1c dista nce . With th e unm1s .a . ..i \~from lookin g at dear old George ta,: n, ,01ncthing cherished, we turned a101tt m looking at the fountains of 1Jlum111at10n ::insconcecl on the lap of a roar~~esc1 u ~~st ni ght, and we turned ar~und that shatte red th e gloom o . folds of a borrowed blanket m the B t cl in th e vo luminous · d the bar' u Gordyk well wrappe ·1 !read ? Why, we had hardly crosse . . .k was )[ sea-sickness. What. A Y f us who know how sea-sick Go1dy .,·c understood, for ther e arc man{ 'o th e cricket match against Vreed-en-1:o~Pd .vh c n \\'e crossed the f erry to ~ ~.;t twenty-three boys a nd two M as ters answe1~e We all laughed heartily a nd that n fl ghin g when n ext mornin g out of the whod Lhe dinner -gon g. But we were no . a~·fast and th e four were those gourm,in s :Jarty only four came down to ~re;' nd. who think it is an unp ardonable cnn~ '::imong us, found wherever bo~~ ~o:d otcalled it! Yes. It was good French foo~o ·o let good food go \\·aste. Go f b ad which we were caut10ned n ot to cl p ' er h ad be ore· re f b · ad that you bread such as \\'C _n ev .

I th;·ough that inelegant sur ace; I e I And Jn the deck lest it bore a ho \ , Oh how I pitied my alnnentary canal. ,th h:id lo stab w ith a kmfc to d1v1 c e. . ; A thick imposs ible fluid studded \\ i • · . ,v a' l a franca1se. y t . were boys, th e re was gravy, gi a, · l t bo,· rallccl beef-rock~. e \\ e ps of w 1a one . • ,bnorm allv large 1un1 · 1 :\'C' h ad to· cat; and we perscvercc .

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And th ere w e re the countless amusing incidents we had on board, suc h as the early morning episode of one boy being rudely awakened from slumber by the ;.ieck-washers and upon observing the wake of a ship that had passed by, asking with a puzzled look whether that wa s the equa tor. There was th e time when some of the older boys discovered the bar with it "Vermou th a ' demi-tasse,'' th e consc .:iu cnces bei n g that certain members of the sixth felt pleasing ly cle\'ated and two of its worthiest r eprese ntatiYes indulged in a heated argument as to \\·hcther Darwin said that a man is a m onkey without a tail or th a t a monkey is a man with a tail, and aga in th e resp ec tive m erits of Volvox, Amoeba. Spirogyra and a few others. to represe nt the simplest species. Never to be forgo tten was th e pillaging of a certain individual's pineapples and th e cordial in vita tion we sent him to share in the meagre fruit rations we ha d brought. He ate ravenous]~· and ~!aimed, as guest, the lion's share. But when he found out wh ose fruit it was he remonstrated veh e mently, saying that we were the sc um of th e ear th and that it was a case of "animus fere ndi" coming to add to our vices.

Well, we reached Trinidad safely and were unfortunate in losing a football game agains t Queen's Royal College. However, we held our own in tenn is, \\·here Delph. Tang and Phang ably represented us.

We pushed off for Grenada, and. passing throu gh St. Vin cent, we arri\·c cl lt Barbados on Monday 11, after four glorious clays of tra vellin g.

We wer e lodged at Palm Beach as guests of a very hos pitable you ng gentlewho looked after us with the natural affection of a father fo r his sons. although we paid :1im back maliciously. Our guests included the famed Sir L ancelot, th e Ca lypsoni a n who, as one boy swore. w as hl'ard to snore out his ral y psocs to an irate wife in the stillness of midni ght. Also there was a hi ghl~·cultured Grenadian gentleman who argued with Dra y ton and ·wi lls on c\·cry :onceivablc topic from Federation downwards and whose fa vour ite exp ression \\·as ''I 'caunt' believe that. '' The Barbadian boys soo11 got over th a t aloofness "·hirh is the consequence of fre sh acquaintance with a stranger and almost imm ediately they took us to their hea rts, inviting us to parties held at th e ir homes and doing their best to introduce Barbados to us. We spent our time in rambling. s11·immin g, visiting, sight-seeing ,md of course competin g in games . ~1a11

In cricket 1\·c showed up very well. We defeated Lodge Sch ool and Harrison Cullegc on the fir st innings and lost to Combcrme re High School in the same ,ya,· .

In the match \'Crsus Lodge. our opponents m ade 174 and we repli ed 1,·ith 174 f;r l\\'o a nd finally 215 for all, th a nks to u seful scorin g by Agard (~8) and Wilb (43). Th e wickets were shared by King (4 for 47 ), A gard (3 for 52) an d Wills (3 for 54). Against Combermere we made 154. of which Sam made 34, Marks 26. Leal 25 and Bish op 20. Combermere replied with 220, th e skipper, B a bb. bei ng caught out in a n alm os t mirac ulous fas hi on by Gorclyk 1\·hen he had 98 .

King took 6 wickets for 68, Janki 2 for 10. Delph 1 for 24 and \\"ills l for 53.

Against H arriso n College ll'e started off well with some dogged battin g by Gibb ons (12) and D elph (16), but ,1·e collapsed for 13]. of which Agard m ade 27. ilfa rks 20 and L eal 16. I n th eir turn th e Harrisonians we re boll'l ed out fo r 121. Ag:i rcl taki ng 4 wickets for 40 runs, K ing 3 for 30 and Wills 3 for 30.

In footba ll we s tood up cq u.il ly as we ll.

Again st Combt' rmcrc 1,·e emerged Wi th a 2-1 victo ry; a nd agains t Harrison we drew, J- :lll. In tc:n nis also 1,·c Proved our worth , but we were defeated 2- nil in hockey by the P ic kwick

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players. Anyway, as a whole, our performa nce w as quite good and the were pleased with us.

In those moments during which we did n ot play ga mes we thorou ghJ°y enjoyed ou rse lves . There w as the inc ide nt about th e car which J a nki hired (he obta ined his driver 's certificate after cem entin g a close alliance with th e Chief of Police); A ga rd , who did n ot kn ow ho w to driv e, expressed the desire t o be a t th e wheel of a car. Tulloc h s a t beside him t o ·guid e his unskill ed h ands. The car was slowly m ovin g out of the d r iveway when A ga rd as ked Tulloch where th e br_akes w ere. Th a t indi v idua l, perhaps absent-mind edly, p ointed to th e accelerator, upon w hich Agard promptly stepped , a nd th e car shot forw ard. In dismay Agard , w un g th e w heel ha rd ove r and th e car crash ed into the hed ge am ong a h eap of leaves and twi gs and dismantled m achine r y . The n th ere was th e tim e wh en Aga rd a nd T a ng on a borrowed m otor -cycle drove up a d ead -end and crashed into an ) ppos ing br ick w a ll. A ga rd hurtled te n fee t into the ai r but rose fr om "terra ferma" with no broke n bones.

We w e re so gene rously enterta ined th a t it was with sadn ess th a t, after the la.; t sumptuo us lunch at Goddard's, w e rod e d ow n to th e wha rf, w here th e closei)a:: ked ran ks of w e ll-wishin g schoolboys and ad oring fem ales a waited us to say far ewell. W e shook h a nds with th e boys, kissed th e g irls fa r ewell, and sped towards the ship for th e journey home wards .

The h om e comin g was sad to quite a few of us \·, ho ha d left our h ea rts behind ; :rn d, per so na ll y speaking, wh ene ver I r e m embe red Ba rbados a t that tim e a wave :,f so rro w used to sweep over m e .

Ye t we ralli ed a ft er a few hours at sea and imm ensely enjoyed oursel ves. fh is hom ewa rd journey w as a lmos t une ventful. fo r by n ow we had got our sea · legs a nd sea -sickness. was a thin g of the pas t. We san g. laughed , pla yed pranks on each other and indulged in all m anner of boyish ad ventures, which of course w e re disad vantageous to th e other passe nge rs on board. We had se t out on Sa t u rday, Au gust 23 , a nd on Wed nesday, 27. we d ocked a t dea r old Georgc to\\'n, .vhich for a lmos t three wee ks w e h ad n ot seen. I c:mnot say th a t w e did not m iss Bar ba dos, but of course, our sta y th ere was to o short for us to r eally miss it v er y much. Ye t w e h ad been impressed w ith w ha t we sa w. And so on th at fat eful Wednesd ay m ornin g the s hip drew in. m oor ed , a nd we we re home. Amidst th e hus tl e a nd bustle of the in ves ti ga tion of th e Cus toms off icers, F or bes drew up t o m e a nd uttered a last lam ent . By mis tak e he h a d ta ken to Ba rbad os a tube of too thp as te a nd a tub e of s hav ing cream (he d oes not shave) instead of two tubes :if too th p aste as he had pl a nn ed , a nd n ow h e was returnin g w ith one tube of . tooth -paste a nd a n em pty tu be of shavi ng crea m . In d ismay he fl ed to a mirror to look a t his tee th .

We ll I must close now . W e h a\·c come back and the thin gs we did on tha t to ur are shro uded in the p ast. But \1·e sti ll love to gather and te ll th e sa me ) Id talcs. relate the same old inc idents.

T o Barbados we say, thanks for eve r ything'

Masculine -

hero

Feminine Passey le buttre - pass the butter.

shero.

A certain VIth former translated M. Lucius Tullus as Monsieur Lucius Tull us .

A weed is a boy that is not wanted :in the particular place in which he happens to be talkin g trash - Form I.

The Prodigal Son waisted his substance -

Form III.

The pass-over was a feat performed €very year in Jerusalem _ Form IIB. The sower went forth to sew the seed · Some fell by thorn s, some fe 11 on . solid rock, some fell on rich soil and produced plenty fruit and more r oots . . The meaning is that the seeds had word and when Satan heard about 1t he opened it, took out the word and stitched them back.

Who has hears to hear let him bear.-Form II. "Plateau" is a sort of plough used by the Chinese. _ IVB.

}1'a111ous Sayiuos about Fn111ous People. ... b 1.

"O he has fallen in to a pit of ink."-PARROW.

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"He doth bestride the Lab like a colossus.'' -BUP .

3. " You h ave of late stood out against your brother. ·• _ SAGO. 4. " Hi s mind is in its original state of white paper." -

DUTCH.

5.

"He is a tall, grave person, lofty in his speech.'' _ GUSSIE .

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"Seldom he smiles." -

PA WPEE.

7. "His "fr aught' ' we soon shall know ; he now arrives." 8.

"And though she be b ut little, she is fierce." -

ARAK. DOR IS E 8

TIGHTFISTEE. 9. "Who stea ls my car stea ls trash. " -

BECKS.

10. "My self my sep ulchre, a living grave." LAPHEAD.

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The Notorio1=1s VB.:-1947-48.

(Kand F)

Q is for query, and h ere we are stumped, But in apologising to masters we here play a frump.

R

is for Raj-gaj, the boy with the beard, If only he'd shave it, he won't be so feared.

S

is for S to, the boy with such mirth, The whol~ VB always gives him wide berth. is for Trevor , the boy with the perm, Denounced by .all as the pest of the form.

A

is for asses, in VB there are many, .

Collect all t heir _brains and they aren t worth a penny.

T

B

is for Bruce, the VB hero , Blushes whenever he collects· a Zero.

U

C

is for Carl, who would do much bette1:, · If sometimes he'd wash his only blue sweater.

D

is for D avy, his hair is so wavy, .

His mother,_complains that he u ses his gravy.

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is for Ugly, our toothles~ delight, Who loves to go prowling through G 'town at night.

V is for Verrier, the chap with the pipe, If only he lights it, Nobby his derriere will stripe.

W is for Whitehead who, work he will dodge, But that is because his mind is in Lodge.

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is for English , Smithy's delight, " I ask you , now isn't this a pli ght."

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is for fish , that swim in the sea, Excuse us -a minute while we take time for tea.

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is for goofy, Gul- gu l to us all , .

Becomin g a pugilist w ill be his downfall.

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is for H arry, who's quite a good lad, When he gets up to read, it's really too sad.

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is for Ivor, a cricketing star, When he argues w ith Bogus he never gets far.

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is for J oey the boy with the mouth, One look at his kisser would put you to rout. ·

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is for Kerry, a lawyer to be, And that is a phenomenon we'd rather not see.

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is for lanky, the ·m an w ithout brains, If Becks had his way he'd put him in chains.

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is for Mary and Maisie also, These two studious fellows should let themselves go .

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is for N .A., the short ladies' choice, But of the w hole VB he h as loudest voice.

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is for Owen, who always looks vexed , But becomes pacified when th e boys call him R ex.

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is for Pit, in which \\'e relax , W e may enter house w hen they take off the tax .

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is for Xmas, we wish it were h ere, The exams will be over, and then what will we car e? are you so stupid," ask l he masters all da y, But we cannot help it, is all we can bra y.

Zis is the end as you plainly can see, So good-bye till next year; From the notorious VB.

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BY CADET Low-A-CHEE.

SPlU~G lU-!7-SPHING 1948 ..\CTI\Tl'lES. Our activities during this year, 15th Anniversary of the Corps, hav been in teresting, but our numbers h ave grad ually become sadly deplet The keen ness in work has also dropped; which fact can be easily asc l.a ined from the poor attendance at weekly parades held on Tuesday a Friday afternoons throughout the year.

SPRING TERM 1947.

The Corps drilled under instructors from the B.G . Garrison, wh "brushed up" our squad and arms drill. A shoot on the open range w_ then arranged. To crown the term's activities we went on a night rou march (April 3rd . 1947) to the Sea Wall (B el Air) before school wen into recess for the Easter vacation.

SUMMER TERM 1947.

Early in the term preparations were made for the Kin g's Birthday Parade, at which our appearance and drill were so impressive that H' Excellency, the Governor, sent us a letter of congratulation on our sple did turn-out. Sad to say, the attendance was not as large as it woul have been if all cadets were issued uniforms. Cpl. Franklin of the B.G Police, then took over the instruction of the Corps .

XMAS TERM 1947.

At the commencement of this term, promotions were awarded Cpl. Phang, W. A.-to be Sgt.; L Cpl. Fraser, M. A.-to be Cpl.; Cadeb Tang, K. W.; Thorne; Chabrol; King, K. F . S.-to be L/Cp ls.

Under the explicit and detailed instruc tions of the capable Cpl. Frank¡ lin, our Corps took a course in Weapon Trainin g.

On Friday, November 28th, we went on a Night Manoeuvre in whic we used blanks. Th e Corps was divided into 4 groups - 1 defendin g an 3 attack ing. The defend in g sector left Q.C. at 9.00 p.m. and position themselves at the Wireless Station (Thomas Lands) which they wer l.o defend. Fifteen minutes later the attacking sectors set out via Vlisse gen Road for our "Operation Base" (Barr Street, Kitty). From Lamah Street onwards absolute silci1ce in all our movements was n ecessary. Th attack was planned in a pincer movement with a middle sector to co mence the offensive. The middle sector under Cpl. Fraser went in fro

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¡vlissengen Road; the right sector under L:'Cpl. Tang from the Sea Wall (North) and the left under L/Cpl. Chabrol from Thomas Road . <,Sout~) . .

Numerous obstacles, trenches, bar be~ wire fences and fields of devils Whip, with the enemy. etc., h ad to be surmounted before contact was made . .

Throughout the manoeuvre, section leaders kept m constant c.ommurncation with Capt. Barker, who directed the advance of the attackmg sectors.

At the end of the manoeuvre, the Corps assembled at the T .T.C. ground , where W !O. Smith pointed out our mistakes. We then returned to Q.C . (via Kelly Dam, Camp Street, Brickdam) where we arrived at 12 o'clock after a pleasant moonlit outing, much to the expense of those who did not possess Cadet uniforms, boots an'd putties, etc. Opinion was divided as to who were the victors, but this is a minor factor in comparison with the valuable lessons learnt.

Taking into consideration this late night of extreme physical exertion, the shooting on the following morning (Sat. 29th. November), was very good. This shoot was concluded on the following Saturd ay. We were promised a competition shoot against a team from the Home Guard, but, as usua lly happens , we were very much disappointed to learn of its cancellation.

Owing to inclem ent .veather there was no Arm istice Day P arade.

A "Closing Ceremony" was held on Tu esday (December 16, 1947) .

The Corps parad ed in full uniform witho ut rifles . Mr. Beckles, Principal acting in the absence of Cap t. Nobbs, presented the following medals in the staff.

For shootin g: Highest aggregate-L/Cpl. Tan g, K. W .-score 107; second highest aggregate-Cadet Low-A-Chee, F . !.-score 106; grouping and snap-L/Cpl. Tang, K. W .; Cadet Too-Chun g, T. M. 28-25 and 20-20 ; application-Cadet Owen-score 19-20 ; rapid-Cadet Low -A-Chee, F. I.21-21; standing-Cadet Low -A-Chee, F. I.-14-20 ; for all-round efficiency , keenness and attendance-Sgt. Phang, W. A. SPRING 1948 Thirteen recruits were enlisted and taught squad and a r ms drill.

On Saturday mornings at Eve Leary (Kin gston ) the Cadets took a course in Weapon Training - Loading, aiming, Trigger Pressing and were tested in laying a correct aim with tripod.

On Saturday (31st. J anuary, 1948), 19 Cadets shot off thei r Empire Test on the Miniature Range - 3 qualified as "marksmen"; 10 passed First Class; 4 Second; 1 Third and 1 was unqu alified. Later in the term, the Corps was instrutced in Bayonet Trainin g and was also taught to salute on the march.

The following team was selected to represent the Q.C.C. Corps as members of the B.G. Rifle Club. The scores are those obtained in the Empire Test (out of a possible 80): Cpl. Fraser 76; Cadets Low-A-Chee 7G; Nurse 70; Vanderpool 64; Owen 62.

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The L iterary and Dran1atic Society.

President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer

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Mr. K. F': S . King.

Mr. R. L. Edwards.

Mr. P. Bacchus.

Mr. F. Noel.

OCTOBER 31, 1947.

A discussion on the Rules of the Society.

VI Form Classics Representative

Mr. B. A. N. Collins.

VI Form Science Representative

Mr. M. A. Cameron.

V Form Representative

Mr. C. 0. Perry.

The committee h ad decided to hold weekly meetings, but unfortunat ely, this custom was restricted to one in every three weeks.

This restriction, however, by no means restrains the interest of the Society's ardent supporters, and the Society still flourishes. There were three changes in the committee this year: Messrs. Panday, Drayton and Phang, resi gned , and Messrs. King, Bacchus and Ed wards took their places.

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OCTOBER . 24, 1947.

"That sex matters should be taught the child at the age of 7".

Proposition: Messrs. A. Gibbons and R. L. Edward s.

Opposition: Messrs. F. A. Noel and B. A. Ey re.

The Opposition won by the unanimous decision of the 3 judges.

During the last school year an effort was made by some of the senior boys to restore the interest formerly evinced in the Literary and Dramatic Fifteen meetings have been held during this period and the Society. programme planned by the committee has included debates, impromptu speeches, a mock-court and a musical evening. The attendance has been, on the whole, quite satisfactory, the Mock-Court securing the largest at tendance.

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Debate: "That all men are born equal''.

Proposition: Messrs. D. Panday a11d W. Phang.

Opposition: Messrs. H. Drayton and C. 0. Perry.

The Proposition gained 7 votes; the Opposition 24.

NOVEMBER 14, 1947.

Lecture: "The isle of St. Helena".

Speaker: Mr. Rawlings.

8. NOVEMBER 21, 1947.

A Mock Trial.

Case: A Breach of Promise; Damages $2,000.

Personn el Judge Counsel for the prosecution Counsel for the defence Plaintiff (Miss Ey re) Defendant Plaintiff's mother ¡witnesses for the prosecution

OUR MEETINGS .

OCTOBER 3, 1947.

Discussion: " West India n Federation ".

Leader: Mr. A. P. B. Richmond.

OCTOBER 10, 1947.

Lecture: "Our recent tour to Barbad os".

Speaker: Mr. H. A. Dra y ton .

OCTOBER 17, 1947.

Deba te: "That m odern dress is n ot conducive to per sonal happin ess."

P rop osition : Mr. K. F. S . Kin g and Mr. I-I. A. Dray ton.

Opposition: Mr. B. A . Collin s and Mr. P. A. Bacchus.

The Opposition won by 3 votes.

Witnesses for the defenc e F or eman of the Jury

Mr. A. P. B. Richmond.

Mr. K. F. S. King.

Mr. F. A. Noe l.

Mr. B. A. Eyre.

Mr. C. 0 . P erry.

Mr. W. Stephens .

Messrs. Yenka na , Hin g and Edwards, Mr. Drayton , as Miss Harriet Fraser, Mr. \V. Phan g.

Mr. D. P and ay.

The Jury delivered a verdic t of guilty, but recommend ed mere\'.

Th e Judge awarded da mages to th e sum of l fart hin g to Miss E;rr e.

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NOVEMBER 28, 1947.

Impromp tu Speeches.

1. A woman's place is in th e h omc-}\fr. D. P J nclay.

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Th ere should be more than one Guiana Scholars.hip -Mr. E. Hazlewood: 3: The possibility of industrialization in B.G.-Mr. F. Wills.

4. The prospects of the W.I. Team against the M.C.C. -Mr. R. L. Edwards.

5. The recent General Elections-Mr. H. Drayton.

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Literarv ., and Dta1natic.

A CONFUSED IMPRESSION. (BY AUDIO) .

10. DECEMBER 5, 1947.

Lecture: "Communism''.

Speaker: Mr. H. J . M. Hubba1'd.

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DECEMBER 12, 1947.

"An evening of Nonsense".

Mr. C. Perry as Chairman.

12. JANUARY 23, 1948.

Speeches.

1. The calypso and West Indian Culture-Mr. K. F . S. King.

2. Art and Literature in the West Indies-Mr. B. A. N. Collins.

3. Is silence golden ?-Mr. F. A. Noel.

4. Co-Education-Mr. C. 0. Perry.

5. India's rest lessness-Mr. M. Cameron.

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14.

15.

JANUARY 30, 1948.

Debate: " That nominated seats in the Legislative Council should be abolished".

Proposition: Messrs. A. P . B. Richmond and M. W. Carter.

Opposition: Messrs. K. F . S . Kin g and R. L. Edwards.

The Opposition won by 2 votes.

FEBRUARY 22, 1948.

A musical evenin g.

Records introduced by Messrs. B. Collins and P. Bacchus MARCH 25, 1948.

A Raft Debate.

5 men stranded on a raft which can only support two . The men .on the r aft, each put forward his argument why he should be one of the two to be saved.

Doctor . . ...... Mr. F. A. Noel.

Artist ...... . . Mr. C. Perry.

Lawyer ........ Mr. A. Bishop.

Poet ... .... . Mr. B. Collins.

Million aire . . . .... . Mr. W. Stephens.

The Doctor and the Artist won by great majorities.

"We'll now start;" Chintermanie's ;voice boomed clear. "'Bal bus' will read the minutes, s'o we'll hear what happened at our last meeting.

Then 'Balbus·'-what a tummy! - takes his stand And makes the members laugh just as he'd planned.

"Order! let the Minute Secretary proceed'." · The minutes a~e read and 'Balbus' takes his seat.

And 'Cheeks' gets up puffing-in a heat, "Mr. Chairman, don't you think .... . . Mr. Chairman . . . ... ,.

He's overruled, the minutes are quite right.

Satellite gets up hammering with all his mi ght: "Mr. Chairman ! I OBJECT'" . . . . .. and tak es his seal.

"We'll now proceed-yes, you have the floor ...... " "Members should contribute something more!"

An interruption-What! It's "Air" again: "Do you kn ow what a sixpence is-twelve cents Can we all afford that? Have some sense! " Treasurer " Tete"! save the situation.

"Mr. Chairman, there are six financial members.

As for the others here, they're just dissemblers ."

There's some embarrassment-but it passes over.

And Mopo's on the floor . . "What 've we go to-night?"

"Sit down Mr.-," for truly, ri ght is might , And ' Mopo ' sulkin g, takes his seat " Impromptu Speeches, th at's all there's time for."

"No.·• says 'Ske_etah' "a speech by Mr. Raw lin gs-er."

What's wrong "Skeetah"!-take your seat-ah.

"We're discussing our item for to-night.'' " Imprompt u Speeches," Mr. Ch air man, "that's all right!"

"But I t 'ink" , says 'Lippes', I want a debate-

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In a Detec tive Magazine I had of late ....... .

Laughter and laughter. 'Lippes' sits down.

"Mistuh . ..... Chairman"-who? no! yes, it's Goosy on the floor "I am compelled to say-er-behaviour is very poor!

Dr. Seneca Platonicus wrote in his " Mores et A short epistle on "Order" which I'll now state-" "But, Mr. Ch airman," the 'Drone' says, "It's late."

"It's nearly twe lve, and we've still go t to eat! " " Yes! that's right," says 'Balbus' of the paunch " I suggest th.~t .. .... yes, those who are staunch Can remain. · · r've got to eat before I sleep."

And 'Nertz's' up. "What have I come here for?

"These arguments are irrelevant, trifles nor Do I find 'Balbus's' sugestions ah! er!'' . .. .. . . .

"Mr. Chairman! I OBJECT''-It's Satellite again: " What's happened to my sixpence?" I ask in vain.

"Gentlemen!" the meeting is closed.

Scientific A1nnse1nents.

BY

L. E.

RAMSAHOYE.

[A top Scient ist hands down a couple of easier experiments to th juniors. The chemicals are not difficult to obtain but possess the dis advantage of being definitely non-explosive].

LUMINOUS PAINT.

Mix together one part Gypsum Pl aster of Paris (calcium sulphate) and four parts powdered charcoal. Dissolve in a little water one or tw cry:;ta ls of zinc sulph ate a nd add to the mixture. Add a pinch of man ganese dioxide.

Place these in a tin and heat to a bright redness-heating is continued so long as any ch arcoa l remains. The creamy residue is then exposed to light and if the prepar ation has been successful it will luminesce. Grind up finely and mix with clear oil or cellulose varnish in order to make lum ino us paint. " GOLD" IMITATION Half fill a test tube with lead acetate solution. Add about four drop; of acetic acid and four drops of potassium iod ine so lution . A yellow scaly precipitate is obta ined. Now heat the test tube un til the solution becomes colourless, and then rapidly cool down by placin g it under a running cold water tap. After a few minutes, shiny yellow crystals appear which can be sepa rated by filtering.

These shiny crystals resemb le gold and can be used t o make gold paint for use in Christmas cards, etc.

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The " Sixth " at Roll-Call.

BY MOPO.

If a visitor should cast a glance around the sixth form at roll-call, he will be struck by the heterogeneous collectio~ of characters existing within the small confines of the class-room. Here . there are p ersons whose very demeanour betrays a trace of nobility, here there are others whose appearance is so insignificant that one g:asps at the difference be~w.een man and man . But the observer, whether ,he be interested in the D1vme work of the Creator, or whether· his interest is aroused merely through a morbid curiosity, cannot fail to notice certain outstanding characters among this unique collection.

Somewhere at the foot of the table sits, or rather slouches, the renowned "Parro", alias "Jersey Joe". One is astounded by the differing shades of this creature's face. One part is jet black, another is rich purple, · but the dividing lin e is by no means distinct, and as a result, the face is one mass of two colours. But the attraction does n ot end there, for a pair of lips, which one admiring form-mate describes as a "frill' ', calls mutely to the most u ninterested observer. But much as we would wish to unravel the mystery of "J oe's'' face, something pulls us awa:v like a magnet and we a~e forced to turn our eyes on "J acko".

Here, the whole problem of the irresistible attraction is soh'ed, for · one sees somethin g that we shall, for reasons of clarity call a "head". To describe this "head" in detail would entail the use of innumerab le geometrical terms ; the terse statement of the wit of the form is barely adequate but somewhat significant: "A head that is not a head, a head that is three heads". Bu t "J acko" is blushing in embarrassment. turnin g up his guava-like eyes in prayer, so we must leave him.

There is a sudden hush and a huge creature, vast, un wieldly, burdensome, enters. He speaks and all are astonished. "Skeetah" speaks with an unmistakable Chaucerian accent ; there is definite trace of inflexion, and the excuse he gives for his late arrival makes one th ink of Milton 's lin es: "But what is strength without a double share of wisdom."

But I must leave "Skeetah", awkwardly smiling spreading his hands out, and shrugging his shoulders at the ign orance and stupidity of the other inhabitan ts , fo r another bein g demands attention.

He is Chintamarni . Looking at him one sees two coal-black fiery eyes. squinting out from under a forehead that reminds one of Darwin

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and his theory. His voice, which sounds like the cracking of a dry coconut biscuit, is heard informing a group of friends of the value of free. speech.

Standing in the corner with a ping-pong bat in "her" hand, is "Nada the Lily." "Her" stance is calculated to display "her" contours to the best advantage. "She" holds "her" head at an angle-a head so huge that "her" long, stringy neck, streaked with the grease of a cheap cosmetic1 can hardly support it. "She" looks bored, for, speaking to her ·is "RanaJ 1 the Prior;" this character is explaining his absence from the Soccer XII wisely opining that personality, not a "shot" is the most necessary requisite in Football.

Someone addresses him as "Murphy", and he hastens to explain that he was not named thus by his parents, but that an enterprising Registrar thought "Ranal" not good enough for "such a nice baby" and so he added "Murphy". The "friend'' is not convinced and so "Rana!

Murphy" skins his upper lip back in what he describes as a sneer, dis· closing an eroded dental.

In close contiguity to these, sit "Sleepy Sohoy" and "Lujuput-rye" (the latter has told me that he was named after a Prince). These two beings are planning the writing of a book which they will entitle "Mathematics and its approach." The authors state that the book will be of great help to advanced students, being liberally sprinkled with quotations from Caunt and Corneille.

They intend to study it thoroughly themselves.

It is difficult to ascertain which author receives the more sleep; "Lujuputrye" is occasionally seen escorting two princesses to the Cinema; "Sohoy'' is never seen after 6 p.m.

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But who is this? What thin g of sea or land comes this way ga\vkin g, ith a sicky smile?

'Tis "Bat-Airs", Anon, he comes, a figure lean and gaunt: And as· I eer into the heavens, I behold a flat countenance flanked with two hu ge ing-like appendages (which he calls ears) . This creature is clutching "Cicero" dear to his heart and with one stride vanishes through the oor; heading for some secret recess, far removed from the vulgar crowd. .S. The author is modest! What a surprise, considering his usual vast self-esteem ! But how can we ignore: that voice issuing deep from the "fauces Averni" and sounding like an bdd pair of long unlubricated rollerskates? No, we cannot pass over this prototype of Popeye's latest creaion, the 'babloon'; he who hath also inspired the local cry "chewing gum for lock-jaw". Now, as he thinks of his fame complacency spreads as far a:s it could across his cheeks and for yet another good reason .

He has accepted a· lucrative post in far Milan, with the United Glass· blowers Association. They were long trying to modernise their Bellows equipment and after diligent research have lighted on our own A. J. We shall miss him - Nertz.

The Portuguese Mutual Pawnbroking Company of B.G., Ltd.

But who is the person sitting in such a careless manner under the table? It is "Big Steve'', so called because of his remarkabl~ size, which Offers a Large nrnl P ine AssorLrnent o( .Te11·cllery for s:ile at Ticnsonahle Price~ can be compared to that of an ant. I hear that he too, is writing a bookincluding a collection of Fables.

The theme of these tales will be taken from Rings. Brooches. Bracelets, Earrings. Links and Studs. Etc.. Etc. Aesop's famous fable about the mouse and the lion; perhaps Steve is also "size-conscious".

A raricty of East Inrlia11 } c1cdleru i11 cl11rli11u:

But I must reluctantly leave, for roll is finished and it is time for Tanman Earrings, Bracelets, Brooches and Bangles. lessons. I must refrain from describing "Tete" whose height (so mathe· maticians tell me) is in inverse proportion to his "head"; I cannot admire LOANS AND MORTGAGES the toothy smile and the hair of "The Earl", which reminds me of that of an angry pi g; I can do no more than cast a glance at "dainty Pat", "the diamond in the rough", the satallite, smoothing her skirts, gazing 'fhe Oldest and Best K11on:11 Pawnbroking Company III the Colony Est ..1blished 60 years. admiringly at her reflection in the pane and lamenting the absence of a Fashion Section in the Q.C . Magazine; I cannot listen to the platitudes of the wise Nertz ("from whose gravity Newton might have deduced Capital An thol'i secl .... Sl-'50,000 Hesene Fn nd S-1:0.0: O his law of gravitation") who is disclosing to an awe-struck audience the Paid Vp .. ~110.000 DeprPeiation Hesc·rw SHU.LOO fact that he has just discovered Shakespeare was a great genius . . ... . . Let us leave.

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Canadian Province.

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Found at Delphi.

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\fbil e it is wry g ratifying -to parents to see their boys and g irl s gro,y rapidly, i~ should n ot be forgotten that thi s is a very critical period. There is danger that they made outgrow th eir strength; th ere is also danger that the development mn,y not be uniform , that one part of th e system is being built up n,t the expense of the rest, that th e bone may not be dt:weloping properly, that nerve and brain may h ck tone, or th e muscle may be so ft and fb.bbS·.

To ensure proper all-roun·d denlopment, it is absol1dt:l!J necessary that the food should be entirely suitable and con t ain the elements n ecessary to deYelop every part of the system ..

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For several reasons, this is not al ways possibl e, and other m eans often bave to be resorte(l to in order to assist nature.

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Cod Liw r Oil to deve lop fle::;!1 a11cl rnuscl e : Iron fo r th e bl ood : Phosphoru s for the bone, n erYe and bra in.

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The Editors ~l1hiuk Ont Lond.

Perhaps we do have some reason for lookin g smug. After _all, this is the first time that a G overnor has condescended to contribute to our Mag. We give a big hand to the performers who ha\'e demanded and got governmental attention. ::: . * * *

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We might have to watch for our iaurels more carefully in the future_.

In one of the detached Vth. form rooms, a powerful press: " The Fifth Form Blas'' has burst into activity. It is, or was, blackboard affair but is capable of expansion. Why don't you keep it up, you fellows?" ·* * * * * We were shocked into the rea~isation that the Dias Cup is no longer a: walk-over. More teamwork and enthusiasm are needed and a few more practice matches. Have a care! ;:

What has happened to the Bee-Keeping Society? Can·t it go '·swe,~t" without the "Sours·'? Perhaps garden space is growing limited or the bees are allergic to squash. Persona lly we prefer honey to bora. *

Speaking of societies reminds us of "A udio·s·• contribution. Just to show how different the society is, he claims he has in vented a new rhyme scheme. It looks rather daring to us. We suggest he chan ge his 'nom-deplume' to 'audeo'!

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An other Latinarian translated Do as "I do'' . Now this is too daring for us. It savours of "hideous rashness." The master said worse. Within a fe w minutes he was further constrained to ask a certain youth "to go and boil his head". After inspecting the head in question. we consider the remedy Yery effect i,·e. A suitable chemical added to the water might help the ~ernodelling urgently required.

Again there has been no Hodgson Cup, but the formation of a shooting leam is a good sign. Averages ,vere good too, though we request long notice whenever a certa in dead shot, ex-corp. is about to pull the trigger. It is about time that the only intellectual gam e in the school rega?n so me popularity. McShine t ime will be around aga in soon .

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Editing a mag, has great inspirational value . • Witness received :~ "Fortune is like a tide at sea, • Falling at night and ebbing at day.

Whats in store for you and me, That the future alone can say."

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vVe hope Mr., Rawlings' stay with us will be a _h appy one: We shouldn't forget to congratulate Mr. Taitt on coming so quietly to his 60th birthday. We'll be losing him very soon, but we prophesy that the 'name' will be immortal. We welcome home, Mr. Cameron from the Isle of Spring, looki11g brand new from toe to necktie. His countenance and his h ead-gear, however, we see changeth not. :j:: * Two heinous offenders have come to our notice. One, answering occasionally to the name of Nertz was overheard, as he clasped a history book to his bosom to croon softly, "Night and day, you are the one. : •• " • 1 The other, Mopo, was discovered inscribing in his diary, " I shall sleep tonight." We hope the change did him good.

One morning certain sixthformers were summoned to Beck's study for urgent conclave . _ Later, we saw from their dejected countenances that the worse had happened. They had been ordered to remove the luxurious and knightly growth from their phizzes.

We suspect envy, cank envy, from the staff. They knew they could ne\'er rival that amount of culture face-thatch. Shame, we cry! Shame! :;'!

An embittered correspondent from the Vth writes "I bought a pair ::if shoes advertised in the ( .... ) . The shoes were all they promised and more. They said that the cost would be $7.50 but it was $8.00." We must see the Chamber of Commerce about this.

The same correspondent, who has a grudge against Big Business, sends :JS this quote: "Don't kill your wife with work: Let electricity do it."

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"Non schoLae sed vitae discimus"-We learn not for school but for life: would be an excellent motto for the school, if we had not one already.

While we are on this note here is something we overheard: "The man who wakes up and finds himself famous has not been asleep."

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