The QC Lictor - December, 1954

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"Onward, Upward, May We Ever Go !"

No. 13

Friday, December 10, 1954

LESLIE BANARSEE-76th GUIANA SCHOLAR Principal Ends Probationary Period Our Principal, Mr. SangerDavies, M .A., will end his two, year probationary period on December 15th. It will be recalled that Mr. V. J . SangerDavies arrived here since December 14th, 1952, to take up his appoinfment as Principal of Queen's College. Mr. SangerDavies having now spent two years is due for leave and is expected to leave soon for New York where he will board the 'Queen Elizabeth' for· Southampton. Mrs. Sanger-Davies who has already left Georgetown will meet Mr. Sanger-Davie~ at Southampton and they will both travel to Bradford to hear their son play in the 'National Youth Ork.' Mr. Sanger-Davies expects to attend a Head Masters' Conference at the U .C.W.I. in March and to return to school in April. We all wish him a pleasant holiday, and look forward to his return.

- I. G. (Ed.)

BEWARE of Toy Bombs. You were not made with spare parts.

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61st FROM Q.C.

T. A. C. Fletche1· Wins Percival

1st Distinction in History Since 1946

11 INTERNAL SCHOLARSHIPS AND EXHIBITIONS FOR 1954

Leslie Arnon Roy Banarsee (19), born at Hampton Court, Essequebo, became the 76th student to win the Guiana Scholarship and the 61st student from Queen's College. Banarsee Js the second Arts student to win the Guiana from Queen's College since F . ii.. Wills - the other was Monroe in 1951.

Banarsee, w ho attended Queen's since 1946 as a Government County Scholar, secured the Oxford and Cambridge J oint Board General Certificate Exam.

(Ordinary Level) in 1951; and in 1953 was exempted from inter Arts in the Advanced Level. In that year he was third in the British Guiana Scholarship list.

This year Banarsee secured distinctions 'in History and Latin and a pass in English. His distinction in history is the first since D. B. Panday, now Dr. Panday in 1946 and it is believed to be the only one this year in the West Indies. Banarsee's brilliance in history is accounted for by the fact that -J.or years now his hobby has been solely the reading of historical essays and writing. He hopes - like Dr. Panday, to pursue studies in

T. A. C. Fletcher was awarded the Percival Exhibition for his performance in the G.C.E. (ordinary level) Oxford anct Cambridge Joint Board Examination this year. Three other Senior Scholarships were awarded to G . Mitchell, E. A. Sue-aQuan and L . K. Yong-Kong.

The Middle School Scholarship this year was won by W. H. L . Paris. Middle School Exhibitions went to N . S. Miller, V. E. R. Ting-A-Kee, and P . C. Pollard. In the Junior School K A . Nobrega obtained a scholarship while exhibitions were awarded to Mook-Sang and A. Alli.

This year the Senior School and Junior School prizes fQl' medicine at one of the Colleges students who have made the of the University of London. He intends to leave for there next greatest endeavour to further year. Potter and Seaforth were the progress of the s~hool were the runners up this year to · awarded to C. I . Wishart and Banarsee. B oth science students, H. A. Khan. the former secured distinctions OTHER SCHOLARSHIPS in Physics and Applied Maths, C. I. C. Wishart bas received a pass in Pure Maths, whilst the latter secured distinctions in a Bookers Scholarship and has Pure Maths and Physics and a gone to the University of Nottingham , to study engineering. pass in Chemistry.

-1. G. (Ed. ) Wishart who gained his Inter B.Sc., at the recent G.C.E. (Advanced) will be away for a period of five years. H e has bad a good career at Q.C. and at the time of his departure he was out strain, but parents should help the school to bring out in their boys honesty and other points of good character that cannot be assessed on paper.

The prize-giving followed in which Fletcher and Mackenzie Queen's College has for the were outstanding. The sight of the Guiana Scholat going up to first time purchased a tapereceive his prize in History was recorder. This machine operatunique, as generally he is at the ed by Barran of the Upper University before Speeeh Day. "Four!h Modern and Wickham of Ill A is being t:sed mainly as The Governor told us that his a teaching device. A 1 re a d y topic was influenced by a book '':Reach for the Sky" by Brick- many important subjects have hill. It tells the story of Colonel been recorded such as "Doctor's Bader, whose indomitable phys- Dilemma," "Tempest," "Prindical courage finally put him on pal's Speeches," Constitution The recorder is also top. He presented the Library Report." with it, and we, on behalf of being used by the Musical Society. It could record any event the School thank him ·here.'

The Head of School, George either direct or from a radio Nicholson pleasantly surprised and could be played to an audius with his Vote of Thanks and ence either with or without an I . G. (Ed.) the Seconder, Mr. Beckles could amplifier. remember only that he forgot to thank the weather.

His Excellency visited our Art Exhibition after the proceedings.

G.A.

Four Ne'w 'Houses' Formed

Governor Presents Me1norable Book

As a result of the school's reaching the 600-mark for the first time, the six standing "Houses" A, B, C, D , E, F, have been saved from overcrowding by the creation of four new Houses: G, H, K, and L. The objects of not having overgrown "Houses" are firstly to keep the family spirit in the "House" system a real thing, and secondly to ensure a keener spirit of competition among individuals-in a small "House," a little contribution by every boy is more necessary.

"D" HOUSE LEADS With the latter aim in view the Principal has instituted a new Inter-House competition for Work and Conduct. In this competition D'Urban ("D") House (Captain N. C. Phillips) is well in the lead.

Following is a tabular history of the Houses :

Our Annual Speech Day was held on Friday, 26th of November. The prize-winners were seated first hour and with mathematical precision the forms took their respective places.

The Govern~r and his party entered at about five o'clock his lady and hers having ent~red a few mit)utes earlier.

After the singing of "God Save the Queen", our Junior Choir, on the Balcony opened with " Listen to my Tale of Woe" and " Little Spinner," - renderings which d eserved the resounding applause which followed. , In his address about the work done during the past year the Principal thanked his predecessor and among other things urged parents not to lay so much stress on the Ordinary Level G.C.E. Each boy worth his salt should obtain five subjects with-

Schoo1-Year

1917-18 1920-21 1932-33 1945-46 1954-55

Size of School

99 boys 170 ,, 196 403 ,, 620 ,,

Hou5es Formed

P ercival (A) and Raleigh (B) Austin (C) D 'Urban (D) Pilgrim (E) and Weston (F ) Mould~r (G), Woolley (H), Cunningham (K) and Nobbs (L)

Exhibition

School Secures .T ape-Recorder

Four New Members of Staff The school welcomes to the Staff this term Messrs. R. A. Lee, B.Sc., S. A. King and V . F. Van Nooten who help in the Science, French and Maths. departments mainly.

Miss Lynette K at ch a y.

L.R.S .M ., is our visiting instructress in singing since the departure on leave of Miss L. Dolphin, G.R.S.M., Miss Dolphin, we understand has had a suecessful operation for appendicitis ih England.

The size of the staff is now thirty.

I. G . (Ed.)

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Co-op Society Banks $2,500

School Reaches 600 Mark

With the ·admittance of ninety. these fifty-eight have been admitted to the second forms, Mr. E. 0. Pilgrim has been Master of " A" House since eight new boys, this term, thirty-one to the first forms. it was formed.

Queen's College bas for the first eight to the Remove and one to The new Houses were named time 600 boys: To be exact six the Lower Sixth Modern.

J G (Ed ) hunared and twenty-two. Of after two former Principals · · · (Moulder, Nobbs), the Governor during whose term of office the New Building was set up (WgolGeorge Nicholson is the new QUEEN'S COLLEGE PRESENTS ley) and, a distinguished Old heaa prefect as from this term.

Boy, Admiral in the British Nicholson entered Queen's ColWilliam Shakespeare's Navy ( Cunningham). lege in 1944 in the prep. He Capt. Nobbs has presented a won a Junior Q .C. Exhibition cup for competition in "his Scholarship in 1946 ansi in 1950 won a Middle School Exhibition.

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Monday and Wednesday December 13 an,d 15 at 8 p.m.

The colours, seen on ties are : In 1951 he was successful at the Tuesday and Thursday December 14 and 16 at 6 p.m.

A-Red, C-Egierald Green, School Certificate Examination Tickets obtainable at Q.C. and in 1953 sat the London E-Mauve, G-Pink and bars, G .C.E. (adv. level ) with exempEvenings : Reserve $1.00 Unreserve 60c. ) Children B--Dark Blue, D-Brown, F- tion from Int. B.Sc. He is CapMaiinee: Reserve 60c.

Unreserve 36c. ) half-price.

Light Blue, H-Pale Green and tain of Football in the school Special concessions for School Parties. bars, K-Yellow and bars, and Capt. of "F " Hause.

L-White and bars.

I I . G. (Ed.)

Footnotes:

Nicholson, N eiv Head-Prefect

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Head Boy of the Sdlool, and was also C.S.M. in the Cadet Corps.

Fernandes and M. A . Lee have been awarded Government Scholarships which will enable them to study Geology.

They were both successful at the recent G.C.E. (Advanced) Examination. They will enter Uni: versities in England. Fernandes has represented the school at Hockey.

1 Insanally and Searwar have secured Scholarships which enabled them to enter U .C.W.I.. lnsanally is doing Arts whilst Searwar is doing · Science.

Searwar who came over to Q.C. from Saint Stanislaus C9llege a year ago gained a distinction in Maths at the G.C.E. Adv. Level. ' Wilson, A . D. G. Carmichael, Haly, Tang have obtained Scholarships offered by the Government Technical Institute to study Engineering. They were all successful at the recent G.C.E. (Ordinary) Level Examinations and will be placed with various firms in England as AP· prentices. Their scholarship are tenable for five yea~, after which time they will retu.rn. to take up jobs with Government.

Haly has represented the school at cricket, whilst Carmichael held the post of C.S.M. of the Cadet Corps at the time of his departure.

G.S.L.P. & M.K. , VA,

TEMPEST

The Co-operative Society was one year old on 10th November.

This Society started by Mr. Pilgrim, is the first ever started in Queen's College and the only one of its kind in the high schools in B.G . This Society encourages boys to be thrifty. ~n it ther_e are two sort~ of savings, Ordinary and Sp~c1al. To date j the Ordinary Sa"\'1ngs amount to $2,516 and the Special Savings $470. So far the Co-op has made arrangements with Fogarty's to supply khaki pants and '!','hite shirts at prices just above wholesale to the students. Thus a slight profit is made by the Society and the students receive their khaki at a lower price. At present there are 238 members in cornpatison with 38 members when the Society started.

Sharma is the President and there are collectors in each form to collect money !rom the boys to bank. Boys save at an average of six cents per week.

- I. G . (Ed.)

PACE 2

THE Q.C. LICTOR

Reader~ ::ire re 111 ind e d that the opinion~ e,11re~sed in lhe letter, published are lho~e of the \\ riters and do This term has been an At present, existing in the At the end of last term the I not ncce\saril) reflect the opinion of uneventful one so far. The school, is the Queen's College Cadet Corps was inspected by troop's activities consisted of an Science Society. This Society Lt.-Col. Pearson of the Argyll the l:.ditorial Board.

Edito1·i al Boarrl Editors: I. C . Goring, A. E. Wharton.

Features : G . A . Armogum.

Sports: G. R. Chung.

Advertisement Manager: M . Z. Khan.

Sales Manager : D. A. Lord.

Supervisor : Mr. S. R. R. Allsopp.

Tiu> Bad Luck of thP Present 1' a.

The Schola1·ship in Arts

Obituary The school extends its sincere sympathy to Mr. R . E. Jonas, of the Staff, who lost his father on the 8th November; (:

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D . A. Lord of the Lower Sixth Classical whose father died on 6 th July; * e o ~ P . W . Osborne of the Lower F o L1rU1 Cla~.sical and Michael O sborne who has left school and h e lpc; to run our Scout Troop.

Their fath e r died on 24th ~ NvvC'mbe r :

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Dear Sir The p;esent v A i~ one of tht most unlucky forms in the school. When we were in UI A bad luck hit our school garden, we had to farm our own beds and we d id not produce. many crops. In 4A, we hardly hao any Woodwork because Mr. Chung went on leave. He came back later in the year and we enjoyed our last term. Now that we are in Va, we are not allowed to wear long pants or to remain in the form room to study, as was the case last year I think something should be done about these things, so that we may enjoy the privileg es of our predecessors of the fifth .

-A. M . EDUN

EDITORIAL

Almost co ntrary to expectation an arts student has won the Guiana Scholarship. Today, wilh the emphasis on technology, many boys a r e forsaking the arts for the science field although the m a jority show greater aptitude fo r arts th 'in science.

He r e al school it has been nbserved th:\• as years go by the A rts Sixths have be en diminishing in numbe rs. steadily. At p resent t!1ere a re only seven~een eludents m both ~he Lower _Sixth a nd the Uppe r Sixth C_lassics .or Arts Sixths, in comparison _with fifty-six in th7 Combined Science or Moder~ S ixth forms.

There 1s no doubt that the science field h~ won.d~rful P.rosp r>cts but today m British Gu_1ana the re is also a need for qualified a rts students. ., Al present we arc forced ~c, "mark time" in the Colony. Tim, is undoubtedly a set-back for the country's status. T~us, we c~nnot afford t o contrnue mak1J?g the mistakes we _have made m the past. The time has come f o r spiritual development. The .colony need~ leaders, le~ders who are motivated by .a high~r ideal than money-makmg. We need wise administrators and diligent politicians. These are the men who wou,d eventually lead the colony towards her goal of self-Government.

The most obvious source whence these leaders can come ic; the high schools. particularly Queen's and especially from the Arts Sixth forms.

Thus, Bana1 see's winning of the Guiana Sch olarship al this period is a stimulus to st.udents who previously had thought ot forsaking an arts cours~, as they p e rce ived it would benefit them little in comparison with the s c iences, which according to s ome is the only progressive fie ld today. Again, it would be admitted that the science man h as a brilliant .future ahead of h im but it is the arts man on whom the colony is deP.endent.

H e is the on e who has the more s ple ndid chance of improving the culture of the community, and m a k e them realise the advanta ges or self-help which would be able to produce a be tt e r Gu ian a in the future . It w ould be said that the scie nce man could also be tte r the culture of t he people, but although thi!. is true the science student's outl ook is seldom as well-developed as the arts stud ent's in such matt ers', and so they are seldom c a pa ble of successful administration.

-1. G.

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Letters

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Dear Sir, It, has come to my notice that the boys of the Lowe r School, w ho us ually have football between three o'clock and five o' clock, are in the habit of us ing the drinking fountains for the purpo~<> of washing the boots which they have used in playing the game. As you know, the drinking-fountains were originally installed for the benefit of the bdys, who could get some cool drinking-water there, when the form-rooms were locked up.

Now, as a result of this, it is quite impossible even lo get to the fountains, as the area around them becomes flooded and even if it were possible to 'get to the fountains, it would again be im• possible to drink , as the basins become full of weeds and mud.

I hope that this letter will catch the eyes df the Principal, and that, as a result of this, som<'thinF will be done to put a stop to it:' L. C. THOMSON (v A).

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T Jie Ca de l Corps Dear Sir, The usefulness of the Cadet Corps is not realised because there is insufficient understanding between the boys and the officers. In my opinion the general deportment and attitude have deteriorated, and therefore the Cadet Corps now is nothing to be compared with ~he Cadet Corps when I first saw it in 1948.

The system of buying your own clothes should be abolished, and also boots should be supplied to the members of the Corps in order to save them destroying their own properly. The days and the hours on which the Corps drills are held are unsuitable to many, therefor(! the at· tendance is not good. Ma ny of the members complain that they don't find any joy in the Corps and as soon as this attitude is taken up, the Corps would cease to be a n y good. The neatness of the old time Corps is lacking, and a g reate r effort should be made to better the various factors, of which those mentioned are only a few.

Yours faithfully, A. R. SMITH (v A) .

Editor: (lT As far as "understanding" is concerned, Cadets have freedom of access to the Officers at all times and there is provision for meetings of senior N.C.O.s and Officers to decide on matters of poli(}y and promotion.

(2) The Cadet Corps has grown from 33 in 1948 lo 100 in 1954 - double the per cent increase in the size of the school.

(3) The policy on clothing is dictated by financial considerations.

(4) Suggestions for more suitable times would be welcomed and considered b y the senior N.C.O .s and Officers.

K. M . ( 0 C)

inter-patrol competition and a was founded on the 23rd Sepconcert. The competition was of tember,· 1954, and its committee a practical nature con~isting of : comprises Messrs. Boland, Draycooking, Scout laws. Adventure ton, Barker. Irwin and Lee. tra-il, wide game, Patrol comers, Office-bearers of the Society are Games, Journey, Uniform Messrs. J . W . Holder, B. B. Hope parade, Attendance and a Camp- and J. W. Ramsahoye who are site gadget. .

President, Treasurer and SecreThe Horses' Patrol was first tary, respectively. Unfortunately with 30 points out of a possible this Society is not opened to the 40. The Mongoose's second, the whole school bul members of tht Rattlesnake' s third, the Cock- Remove, Lower and Upper Sixth erel's fourth.

Modern and Science students The concert was put on by from B .H.S. St. George's and Queen's College AIM Troops in aid of the funds to The aim of the Society is to send Scouts to the coming Jam- improve the knowledge of matboree which is to be held in ters of scientific interest among Canada near the Niagara Falls students. The Society invites cerlhis year. Q.C. contributed four tain members of the public to items including a play, "The lecture on different sci._entific Burnt Pig." St. George's item subjects. Already two members was "Pyramids." of the community have lectured Two Scouts gained their Sec- lo the members of lhe Society, ond Class Badge this term. They namely Mr. F. Debidin. an Old are Brian Pairaudcau and Patrol Boy and recently qualified Second "Pussy·• Persaud. We engineer, who gave a lecture on bade farewell to A.S.M. Kerry; " Aspects of Civil Engineering," who was with the Trooo for and Dr. B. B. G. Nehaul, also an seven years. Around a Camp- Old Boy, who gave a lecture on fire he was presented with a pie- " Bacte riology." Mr. Debidin is lure of the Troop. He shook attached to the P.W.D. and Dr. hands with each boy before he Ne~aul .is the Government Bacleft.

S.M. Butler then an- teriolog1st and Pathologist and nounced that T. L . Osborne, head of the Central Medical Lawould take A.S.M. Kerry'~ bora~ory at lhe P .H .G . . place and Senior Patrol Leader .It 1s expected that the Society Too-Chung was made T.L. will give an Exhibition ne xt Senior Scout McAndrew was te rm .

- J . W. R. (L vi M) . also to be made A .S.M. The Troop's programme for (Supervisor's note : This is not the next half of the tenn would consist chiefly in getting the the first Science Society to be Scouts trained for their Second formed at Q.C. A flourishing and very activt? Socie ty existed and First Class B<!_dges. for some years :md became defunct about 1943 .

Speech in Queen~s College

The main purpose o! a school besides educatin~ is to turn out gentlemen. Queen's College, the school second to none in this country, no doubt has a reputation for turning out gentlemen, but it is chiefly up to the boys themselves to uphold that ;·eputation. An essential quality of a gentleman is his ability to use the language of his country properly. Thus, if we w~nt to call ourselves gentlemen at the end of our school careers we must . train ourselves to speak correct English.

I think there is much room for improvement in the speech of many of the boys in this school.

It is not surprising to find parents complaining to masters 0f the deterioration of their so1.s' speech. It would seem tha( correct English is not taught in Queen's College. This is not so.

There is a great contrast between the language of a boy on the playing field and when be tries to speak correct English t o a master. In the latter case w e

and Sutherland Highlanders who remarked that he was much impressed by the military bearing and keenness that were displayed.

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In August, the annual Camp was held at Atkinson and we underwent nine days' of vigorous but interesting and enjoyable tra ining under Argyll instruction.

DEP ARTUll.ES This year, several members of the Corps left school, among whom were C.S.M. Wishart, C.Q.M.S. Seaforth, Sgt. Holder, and L / Cpl. Osborne. Later m the term C.S.M . Carmichael and Cdt. Wilson left and are now in the U.K. on Technical Inslitule scholarships.

PROMOTIONS : Cpls. Fields and Young KoHg promoted to Sergeants. L / Cpl. Ridley and Cdt. Mekdeci (i/c Stores) promoted to Corporals.

Cdts. Archer, A .N.; Persaud;· Too-Chung and Wiltshire promoted to Lance-Corporals.

PARADES: On September 24, there was a route march and 39 ranks took part. The Cadet Corps was rcpr~sented by 21 chosen ranks under lhe command of Capt.

Maudsley and 2 / nd Lieut. Rock on Remembrance Day Parade.

STRENGTH INCREAiiE : • Thirty-eight recruits were enrolled. bringing the totai str<>ngth to 1.02.

Shooting takes place at the miniature range at the Police Depot on Wednesday from 7 - 9 p.m. and on Sunday .from 9 a .m.12 noon. The Cadets have al~~-..r----~ ready fired their qualification shoot for Certificate A, Part I On November 4th, school and II, which are scheduled for stopped after the first period and later this term.

-L.Y. K we marched to the Hall lo hear a lecture from Mr. Jenkins of the Police Force. He exhorted us not only to obey the rules of the road but also to use our commonsense, and not to use the road selfishlj.

On November 5, Q .C. held ils The Lower School took part in the Safety Week Junior Quiz. Remembrance Day ceremony.

On Sunday1 7th November The whole school and $ta/I were prizes were awarded at th~ assembfed in the hall l'lt 10.40 Plaza. R. Zitman of II A rt!ceived a .m. After the usual prea Daci camera and E. F. Moore liminaries the ceremony beof I A received a Meccano set. gan with the Bugler, Cpl. Sitters of the Black Watch.

He was followed up by see that he has to make a great James W. W. Watson, a effort to speak fluently: freckle - faced youngster o.f You may say that the languag~ 8 11/12-years, the you11gest boy f1f. Guianese is Creolese, and that in 1he school; he is in the Prewe are Guianese. I do not doubt paratory Form, G.D. Nicholson the fact, and f a ~ it from me and J. W . Holdrr, Head and to suggest that we should Deputy Head-Prefects, respecdespise Creolese. Creolese often tivPly, did their dulie~. comes in handy, but it will The ceremony ended with the d.o us good to be able to speak singing of the school song and the English language fluently. the National Anthem.

We must try to improve our P.S•: A sum of nver S20.00 speech, and the best way to do was collected from the school. so is lo practise.

- W.B.Y. (Liv C.) ~ - R. P. (VA.)

Slliety Week

Re1ne1nbrance Day at Q.C.

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Natu ral Scie!1ces

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Boland, F . N. R. Cameron. M . A .

Chan, H. V. Chan, W.R. Chin, W. A. Collins, B. A. Drayton, H. A. Eyre, B . A. Folkard, L. H. R. Gibbons, R. A. Insanally, S. M. D. Insanally, S. R. Kerry, L. R. M. Lam, I. R. Lee, R. A . . .

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Friday, Dectmber 10, 1?54.

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B.H.S. Girls at Q.C.

Sivimming For All

The following report was written by one of the B.H.S. girls now doing Science with us. ''At nine oclock on the 16th September we l~t Bishops' High School to attend our first lesson at Queen's College.

We were curious about the school, and excited and a bit frightened at the prospect of working with boys and being taughf by male teachers, after attending an allgirl school for the past eight years. We had all gone to preparatory schools before attending the Bishops' High Sc1'1ool and the memories we have of the boys there are not very pleasant, for the boys delighted in throwing earthworms and frogs at us.

We kne>w that the boys we were going to work with had outgrown such pranks but we also knew that worse pranks had taken the place of those childish ones · At 9.01,5 a.m. we turned into Queen's College gates and went in search of the Physics laboratory. When we got there a l esson was in progress and we were told that we had a Chemistry lesson first. We went to the Chemistry laboratory and as we passed through the door the boys who were already in the .room gazed at us as if we were specimens from another world Feeling very uncomfortable we all tried to get the nearest stool to sit on. I cannot remember very much o-f the lesson but I remember I was very surprised t o hear so much noise being made during a ~sson.

Some or the boys objected to our working with them. but most of them were pleased to have us.

Our second lesson was Physics and so we went back to the Physics laboratory. As I entered the lab the neatness of the room took my breath away. The desks were polishecl and the windov;3 c:r,d ceilin,'s were clean, the books and npparatus were neatlv slacked. I do not know w hy ·1 was so surprised to find the room so neat for we have tidy rooms at our school, but it was probably because I thought boys could not keep rooms as tidy looking as girls. I saw that I was mistaken. We did not have a Physics lesson that morning but , we were given cards on which to write our names and certain other particulars. One of the girls was given a piece of cardboard to cut the cards and the teacher quarrelled with her for not cutting them straight. We were afraid of him and we listene d quietly while he was telling us to put back our stools and any apparatus we may have to u se in future just where we found them.

Break was next. I thought the girls at our school made a noise at break but compared with the noi,;e the boys made our girls a.re fai rly quiet.

Someone told us that there was a tuck shop. This was evident. from the number of boys we saw sucking popsicles and eating buns. We went to the tuck shop but W<' did not go in for the dining hall was crowded with boys and we were not' feeling very courageous that day.

To'wards the end of the morn ing we began to wonder if we were exhibits at a museum, foi every form that passed gazed at u s, and many boys sJood on the stairs and peeped into the Physics laboratory at us.

It did not take long for us to get used to the ways of the school. We were not accustomed to being shouted at so often but we do not mind that now, and the boys are pleasant to work with. Last year the former lower sixth girls told us that the boys had hidden their bicycles and tied their hats to the roof. Every day we came out of the laboratory expecting to find our hats and bicycles missing but they were always there. We thought that the boys had decided to leave our bicycles alone, but we were in for a surprise. On the day after half-term the boys decided to have their fun. They put our bikes and h ats in the Biology Museum and put benches .and

In Dorset, England, the boys of Huish Episcopal Serondary Modern School built their own bath. It is of a type developed originally in New Zealand as a "learner" bath and measures 32' 6" by 20' and varies in depth from 2' 6" to 5', 3". The boys were supervised by the Staff and received professional help in the final "rendering" or plastering stage.

Chlorination by hand, regular testing and periodical changing of the water ensure hygienic conditions which have satisfied the local health authorities. So successful is this venture that the local education committee have authorised the construction of two more baths.

The cost? £ 162. FantastiC', isn't it?

"Teachers World" comments : "It seems that any modern school with a bit of ground and plenty of spirit should be able to build a bath . ..

The need of more S}Vimming baths, particularly instructional baths, is generally recognised.

It begins to look as though a policy of self-help would quickly remedy t"b.e shortage."

The New Zealand "Learners' Pool" varies in length from 30 ft. to 75 ft. and in width from 12 ft. to 15 ft. The tiepth varies from . 2 ft. 6 ins. to 3 It. so that 3 ft. is the "deep" end of the bath. It is large enough for a class of 40 to receive instruction. One advantage of this type of bath is that it is built mainly above the ground so that an in~tructor may teach his pupils with ease. " Teacher s' World" continues: "Thal, we believe, is a proper way to multiply, quickly and effectively, the number of school swimming baths .... failing official help, many schools should be able to collect the necessary money through school efforts or the parents' association.

Voluntary labou r is needed.

In boys' secondary schools there is no difficulty; the pqpils can do the job .... It has been done.

It can be done again. The cost is trifling. The main need is a determination that schools shall have their own instructional baths.

Given this determination, we need never hear again the story that swimming instruction is held up for lack of baths."

The "Short Pants" Rule This school term has produced something new. At last we are rivalling the legs of the ostrich.

This age of long, hairy matchsticks has resulted because of a new Rule. This new Rule passed by the Principal state!. that short pants must be worn by bor,:; from the firth ro_rn'l" and downwards.

Thus boys who shave e veQ ~ day wear long pants.

Thus the old boy s of the fifth form - and I do mean old boys - wear short pants. . . Now, it is true tha t it is cheaper to launder short pants than long ones but the &gcny of see ing the "thighs" of some of -the wearers of thes~ short pants. ugh!

Then there is the other extreme, fat, shapeless l~gs (or logs) in short pants. It. is a real pain (?) to the eyes to c;ee two lumps of meat knocking together in a pair of big baggy khaki, short pants.

And so short pants (although economical) because they expose a person's lower limbs are a source of discomfort to some of the onlookers.

- M.A. (VB.)

tables in :front of them. They were kind enough to leave a hat hanging on the door knob of the Biology Museum so tl}at we would know where to look for them. The sixth form boys took out the bicycles for u s and we went home. .

On the whole we all enjoy our lessons at Queen's College."

G. F. PERSAUD (B.H.S.)

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Target For Tonight The Rarest Hovering tense!~' above the Sta,np:

Padere1vski in Miniature

A little boy in a well cut eve- the water, he watched with ning suit strode across the stage eagle glance. Just beneath the at Queen's College's Auditorium ~urface· a black shape could be on Wednesday, August 25th at discerned. With lightning-like 9 p.m. and enticed such harmony rapidity, he swooped - and from the grand piano that the missed ! The churning water vast and appreciative audience gave deceptive glimpses of hb was left cheering for t ~ or quarry, and up again he went three m"i n u t e s after every hovering about in w1relenting watchfulness. Sooner or later the rendition.

This miniature Paderewski, enemy must surface. It did. He down and missed eleven-year-old Jon Robertson, swooped displayed complete mastery of again. Baffled, he retreated the works of Schubert, Bach, after a quarter of an hour's Mozart, Lizst, Purcell and Arne, nerve-wracking battle. and left such a deep and lasting It never occurred to him to impression on the minds of his drain off the water from the listeners that one of them was bath to retrieve the soap. heard to remark that he was - -(R<!printed) one of God's chosen children.

His programme included Myra Hess' arrangement of Sebastian Bach's familiar and moving composition, "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring.". He played this with such emotional vigour, that one would have thought The Working People's' Art that he or she was in Paradise Class was an idea passed on tc, among the angels. Master Mr. E. R. Burrowes, who is at Robertson also exhibited his present Queen's College Art genius by the manner in which Master, by a Mr. John Harrison I:e m.~ste~ed , S~~ubert'~ ''.-yaria- in 1947. It's membership at first hons, L1zst s Polonaise and was about 67 and in about si'l\ ·'Grand, E~.ude in E. Major,". a n?, months' time had "incieased to M~:>zart s ~onata rn D Ma.Jor. 167. Owing to certain circumH1s rendermg ~f the National stances the class has been conAri~hem was ~ highly ornament- \ tinually moving !coin building a l mtcrpretallon. . to building until recently, when Jon gave. another recital to a an in,Yitation wa'- extended by select aud1ci:ice on Saturday the Principal of Queen's College, 28th at, ~?ich he. P 1 a Y ~ d permitting the use of the College Schub~rt s . Sonata 10 E MaJor Art room. The class is held every No. 3 ~h1ch lasted. for oyer Thursday night between the twenty mmute~.

This mus1ca1 hours of scven-thirtv and ten. marathon re~u1red a g~e~t deal Only a small percentage of Q.C. of con.ce~trabon and ability and boys are in this Art class.

Jon did ii perfectly. _ R A (v A) A. McD. D. (VB..' · ·

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The "Zeu'' 0 Tl~ere is a new dance craze in the city which has finally found its way into Queen's C:_ollege.

This dance ha!'; been given the name of "The Zeg." There seems to be some uncertainty about the origin of this dance. Some say that it has been brought over here from Surinam, while others say that it ha., actually been st :1~·ted riiht here in the slum a~._>:lS of ,1~ city, ~specially in that of Albouystown.

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The main idea of the dance is very simple. It consists o.f a few basic steps, which can be elaborated upon by the performer, according to bis imagina.tion, and. to a great extent, his ability.

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Principal, and the Form Prefof.'~ Mr. J. A. Singh.

The Party was opened wiC :i toast to the Queen and another to Queen's College by th_e Form Master, Mr. H. R. Persaud.

Later, Mr. Persaud asked J. P. , Mangal, the Master of 5:eremonies, to offer a toast to the Guests. Mangal then proposed lhe toast and pointed out the form's great indebtedness to the Form Master, who, by true diligence has achieved a place in the hearts of the boys. Mangal, being very honest, referred too to the large amount of boys whit were being put in the detention

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Q.C. Overwhelms Berbice 7-1 To Win Table Tennis Dias Cup : Haly Presents Q.C. Win Governor's Cup

The Dias Cup Final was undoubtedly a one-sided a ffair.

The five fo rwa rds led b y centreforwa rd Bak er w ent on a goalscoring picnic. Odle sta rted things off in the 6th minute when he push ed one past a helpless goal-keeper . Just two minutes later Bake r scor ed the first of three to come from h is magic boots. A five minute sp ell intended for the bewilder ed Be rbicians to recover from the early shock, was brought to a n e nd as Baker returne d to the goal area for his second and Q .C's third, indeed a shot of exquisite timing and flawless craft. Two minutes passed when Bacchus sent a ha~d indirect free kick which goahe Huntley thought he could stop, but he was wrong. Baker soon comple ted his hat-trick in the 20th minute converting from a corner k ick by Smith from the right side. Young 'Dico' Fields worked his way into the area and beat the ill-fated Huntle y just befo re the interval. Q .C. a t this point had accounted for all of the h alf-dozen goals scored.

The keenness shown in table tennis h ns wanerl somewhat this t <'rm ar.ti a d; stinct l ack of interest on the part of senior players pas been exhibited .

Th e r e is definite n eed for m ore compe titions in and out of the school to k eep alive interest in the game.

During this term the school e asily defeated Ca mbridge Acad emy 5-0 and B .G. Education Trust 3-2 to reach the finals in t he Governor's Cup. We then beat the otJ:>.e r finalists, Ce ntral High School 3-2 'in a closely contested match.

Our players wer e over confident, practised little and as a result nearly lost.

The school has many promising youngsters and with them lies the future of table tennis in the school but it should be reme mbered that only by pract ice, practice and still more praci ice can they reach the top.

Finally, we must congratulate Mr. Narayan for the efficient way fn which he is cond ucting the school's table-tennis activit ies and we. call on all players to make hIS task easier by giving . him their fullest coop e ration.

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Three minutes after the second h alf whistle, Berbice with a spirited rally, fo~ced. a comer Then their dimmuhve left-hall F erreira opened t heir account with a long punt from the corne r -flag. Not yet satisfied, this ava ricious band of youtM wearing t he black and gold jerseys of Queen's College . gave outside right A . R. Smith a cha(lce w hich he accepted and the score was 7-1. With the end in sight, Huntley proc~eded to d eligh t a fair crowd with some spectacular saves. Apart from the tireless goalkeeper only F err eira and Sheriff threatened ignition, but Q .C's defe~ce played t heir hoses well to extmguish a smoldering Berbician fire.

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Cup J . A . P . Haly, who left recently for England on a Technical Institute Schola r ship presented the school with a cup which would be given to t h e batsman wh o 5ecures t h e highest aggregate in Wight Cup Cricket for Queen's College every season. It will be r ecalled that H aly was a mem ber of the Wight Cup side and captain of t h e team in the Raj ah Cup series.

I. C. G. (Ed.)

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Gardening received a new lease of life at the beginning of term. Mr. Camcron,- Mr. London and most of the Lowe r School hoys have undertaken to work beds a nd soon they will reap.

We wish the m thP. steadfastnes:, of purpose n ee( ssary for such an undertaking.

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After the L ictor's call. chess h as again taken a part in the school's activities. Boys we re taught at the beginning of term by the ve t!,!rans and already there is a championship tourname nt on.

• • • • The high winds blew off seve ral of our roof sheets on that m emorable Friday, Nove mber ?2nd. Ne w zinc sheets w ere put m on th e Saturday followin g.

Since our club has been :formed, so many boys are sh ow, ing an interest in playing, that we are gratified to know that t ennis has been re vived successf ully in school. In addition to our wooden court. we have now been granted the use of a grass court over at the B .G.T.A. Club, We hope that a grant would soon be give n to us to lay down hard On Friday, Nov ember 5th, courts West of the pavilion. With Poppy D ay collections w ere Mr. Readwin expecting to coach made. The School handed in us soon, w e are certain that we Note : Q.C. previously had $20.2H. tw ice last year's collecwould play a major role in pro- beaten St. Stanislaus in tae tion. ·A.' House collec;ted the ducing future Colony chammost $2.fj2, closely followed by pions .

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- C. A . (Va)

Q.C's 1954

Q.C. in VolleyBall Contest

Cricket Weak CASE CUP : Playin g all the match es but one without t h e serv ices of Mr. Richm ond, 9 ur youthful team w as h andicapped fro m th e start. Never th eless, we managed to beat three clubs on the fi rst innings and onl y h a rd luck made us l ose to t h e ot her clubs. Our chief scorer this .season w as N. C. Phillips who batted consistently t h_roughout.

L . E . J ackman also batted well and bore t he br u nt of the bowling. Later on, in t he second half w e were stren gthened by t h e inclusion of Mr. R. D. Rock w ho h elped us greatly in both bowling and b atting. We will, I am sure. give a better sh owing next y ear and t h en , show the sce ptics a t hing or t wo. On " to fresh woods and pastures n ew " !

WIGHT CUP : Under the guidance of our Principal, t h e Wight Cup team made u p for mediocre ability with ent.husi; asm. They play ed some strong teams a nd generalliv lost, but later on they settled down to play crick et a nd so far h ave been play ing as if inspired. At the moment they have 17 points and are, although unpl aced, serious foes for the leading clubs.

THE FRANK CUP : Most of this team's matches were rained out but in quite a few cases we beat some of the st rongest teams only to cnimble against weaker opponents. We, ne vertheless, finished seventh i n Section B which is a decided improvement on our previous p erformances. - C. A.R. (U. 6 C.)

poem S ilvery, selenic liquid light S hine upon my love tonight.

Shine upon her hair so bright, And sparkle in its ebonite.

Oh, Selena, I implore you, Bless the girl who stands before you For your brilliance men adore you Oh. please clothe her · in brilI1ance too.

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T his term, th e school entered t wo teams--an ' 'A' Team and a 'B' Team, for the J ohn Car ter t roph y. The 'B' feam was the stronger a nd more successful team . They narrowly lost their fir st t wo matches, .)ne against Book ers who r each ed the Finals, bu t came back to win the next two matches.

I ~ the other section, the 'A' team in w hich wer e included boys who were playing in such a competition for the fi rst time, was n ot ver y successful.

We, however, hope that w ith the p r eparation of a cour t and with t he spirit we know to be there, we w ill do very w ell in the n ext competition.

M.O.

Hockey Rather unfortunately, the school team has had no opportunity to displ ay its ability in any league match this t erm, but a few friendly matches w ere played against n eighbouring Sports Clubs. At the b eginning of the term, we were fortu nate to obtain the services of Mr. Gordon Cossou, an Old Boy and a prominent hockey-player Himself, who consented to coach and give u s advice. The presen<,.e of Mr. R. A. L ee, also enlivened the interest in the game, especially among the lower school, and it is hoped that we wiil soon have a good team.

A few weeks ago, histor y was made when we fielded a team containing five young ladies (not from Q.C.), to oppose a mixed team from Bookers Sports Club; We emerged winners d ue to a brilliant display by S . V. Lee, our captain who scor ed two quick goals in the second h alf.

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