The QC Lictor - November, 1958

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DOES THE DOUBLE The Jacob (;up -

SCHOOL MEALS The beginnin g of hour . ~ew school year heralded t e m.roduction oi a new feature - t~c "'idday meal· This is an offer, m the first place. to the boys who live in the country districts, and who for some reason or other, find' themselves in the unhappy position of being unable to procure a good midday meal._ Few people really realise the difficulties experienced by . 'l country boy when attending school in Georgetown. He leaves home early in the mornings very often without a proper me~l- and does not return home until late afternoon or evening- He ~herefore has to purchase at midday perhaps a bottle of milk and a few cakes which can ha:dly ~e referred to as a proper meal. Ii_ is of course useles~ to walk with cooked food for after the lapse o.f time it would become cold and unpalatable.

MLSTAKEN IDEA Most of the boys have come to the Dining Hall as being synonymous with the "tuck-shop,'• a place where light refreshments could be obtained. But they have really l_ost sight of the real purpose behmd the construction of that part of the building-it is literally ~ "Dining Hall-'' However, for various reasons the original plan was never implemented though it w~s not completely jettisoned. A review of old "Lictor" editions would serve to emphasise t he difficulties experienced in putting the plan into effect· Above all credit must undoubtedly go to Mr. Sanger-Davies for his unfailing efforts to sec that this scheme should materialise-

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macy) -was retained once more by our School who had won it last year from St. Stani'>laus. In this vear's struggle, after a convincint victory over the latter in the semi-finals, o u r team earned the right to travel to Berbice, there to engage the Berbice High School in the Finals.

The Queen's College team OP·· posed the Berbice High School on the Mental Hospital Ground on Wed. 15th an cl Thu r·s.

16th October. The only change made from the N o r t h c ot e Cup XI was the omission of opening batsman G a r y Ramprashad whose place w2s taken

by Birkett.

achieve any success :igair.st the overnight batsmen. It was then left to "Trinculo" Lewis and Nicholson to disperse with the remaining 5 wickets, and even-· tually B. H. S. were all out for 108. Lewis returning w ith figures of 4 for 17 When Q C. batted for :i second time they immediately chased after the runs: McWatt (50) and Grant (26) treating the many male and female spectato:-s with some delightful catting. Spence R. 0. H. and Niles caused t'he birds in the trees to experience a f e w anxious moments, and Q.C. declared at : 10 for 5.

Left to make 168 runs for victory B. H. S. were content with playing out time. but they were in for a few rude shocks, when Lewis, bowling with three short legs, three slips, and two gullies, got the ball to bite appreciably off t he pitch. It was only time which saved the Berbicians from complete humiliation, and t he day-ended with the score at 43 for 8, Lewis 4 for 13.

R. M. S. KHAN.

The match: opened on a bleak day, with dark clouds hovering above. Queen's won the loss and elected to bat on a wi<.:ket which ~eemed perfectly inn;1cuous. But 1t turned out to be vicious and nasty. and it was on!y a shower of rain wh ich allayed the fears of the members of our team. In view of these facts the total of l 65 was a very good one, and nedit must g--, to three players "Olaf" Grant who played a grand innings of 60, Khan 3fi (N.O.) and Nichol~on 17). When B.H.S. Our football team took the field went t0 the wicket thev fared on Tuesday 14th October deterworse than our boys and by close mined to recapture that errant of play had lost 5 wickets for 23 wanderer and return her lo her runs. H ighlights of i.he later resting place in our Trophy casestages of play were t Le fielding The Dias Cup symbol of many of the Q. C. team w hic.h resulted fiercely fought duels had been in two r un-outs, and t he bowling missing for two years· of Ovin Spen ce wh c, in h is new role of ope I1ing bowler, dipped A certain drubbing seemed in two wickets. store for B.H·S·, when after only In contrast to the previous day, three minutes, Shepherd our Thursday was bright and h ot, and right wing blasted into the net, t he early bowlers f aile d to from what appeared to be an im-

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possible angle- This however was not to be- In spite of our domination of the first half of play, the forwards failed to find the net again, in that half. Our opponents however, in one of their rare visits to our penalty area sucCl;eded in equalizing.

Thi~ coupled with doubtful deci,;ionc; against us did not exactly inspire our team- The lemdn pause was observed wif.h the score at 1- 1.

The whistle blew and back into the fray we went- Play see. sawed back and forth, our defence performing capably but the forwards failing to complete the effort- This was du-e mainl y to the splendid display of the B.H-S: custodian who time after time brought the spectators to their feet with brilliant savesImagine our dismay when B -H.S: netted again- This set back however proved to be but a temporary one- For with un. daunted spirit and ears ringing with the vociferous encouragement of our cricket team on the touch line, repeated attacks were made on the opponents' goal.

Success finally came when 'The Kid' beat the goalie and chalked up the equalizer- With but a few minutes left for play McWatt put the game on ice, .. converting a centre he sent a scorcher into the lower corner which had the goal. keeper hopelessly beaten- So victory and the Cup. Special mention must be made of Messrs- 'Pryor' J onas, Boland and the other masters who helped to build the comparatively strong football team we now haveW. H. BACCHUS Sports Editor

·U.S.I.S. PRESENTS TEXT BOOKS TO Q.C.

OTHERS MAY JOIN

It is gratifying to see that a good number of the boys, and some of the masters are making good use of this amenity. at the moderate price of fifty cents -per day, and it is hoped that many more will exploit this facility for the offer of school meals is also now open to any boys of the school who give notice in advance. It is sincerely hoped al so that other features wil! be introduced which tend to alleviate the ' often overlooked hardships experienced by country boys-

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H. A. KHAN, 1958 Guian a Scholar This term has not been without its praise - worthy a c a d e m i c achievements. First honours m ust u n d o u b t c d l y .eo to H. A Khan. Th i s budding 'Cicero' 'Cornelle,' 'Garcilaso' - all in or.e, has accomplished the enviable feat of gaining three distmctions and that, in three languages ! His example, (I mean Scholastic example) is certajnly cne tc, be emulated, you classical lads ! He was awarded the 1958 Guiana SchoJarship.

A n equally , m pr e s s i v e achievement was realised, by our eccen tric professor S. V. D ab yd e en (who it is said grows his h air in s uch abundance to enable his cork -hat to fit firmly) who obtained distinctions in English ar..d History anc'I was a warded a U.C.W.I. open Scholarship.

Congrats to J . A. Downes :md N. S. Miller who were awarded th<' Bookers Cadet sh ips and also to our old boys, L. K YoungKong on be in g named runner -up lo- the ·'Student of the Year•· title at U.C.W.1 . and to S . E. Wong, on winning the Junior S u rgery P r ize.

Keep the good wo1 k up !

V. C. I. (Asst. Ed.)

THE LICTOR KEEPS ITS WORD Early last year the ··Lictor" imnounced that it would be award.. ing a prizr. to the writer of tho best fratur~ article and also for the bP.st )P.tter appearing in the three editions of the newspaper for the year 1957- 58That promise was ful.filled this term when a book-token valued 21/was presented t o S . Dabydeen a:i: the author of t he best article. while V- R. Boodhoo received a similar prize, this time w or th 10/6, for h is letter to the editot which was adjudged the best for the year

YOUNGE. W . F. U. 6. M.

PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY EXCURSION Saturday, November 8th, saw the secorrl official outing in th0 history of the Q.C. Photographic Soriety. At 7.45 a.m. on that fair morning, eight members togethe r with Mr. Lcwe, our zealous and very capable leader, crossed the Demerara Rivt'r for our outing of the West Rank Demerara. With cycles as our means of trans port we roved along t he Public Road in a quest for ir.ter~sting scenes and objects. Our cameras were constantly in use to snap the many scenes of rustic simplicity .. nd beauty. Our journey culminated at Wales Estate and soon we were hurrying back to catch the 2.30 ferry, after an interesting and !'njoyable time.

WEBSTER, S.G.

Q.C. AGAIN

The abovt> pict ur e sh ows the U.S. Cons ul, Mr. Carroll Woods in the Q.C. Library_ discussing one of the gilt books with Mrs. V. J. San ger-Davies while the Principa l and Mr . N. E. Cameron look on. In the backrround can be seen master <; and boys examining other books The American Consul, M: Carroll Woods successor of Mr Joh n Cope, has presented the college with a collection of books.

These books, numbering about ~'00 range from kindergarten to high school and deal w it h History, Geography, Economics and Social Studies- The sets of books dealing with each subject consis t of a Student's Workbook Teacher's Manual and K ey, and Tests and Questions-

The presentation, which was Mr. Wood's first p ublic ceremony m B.G. was carried out simply a nd impressively T he books which were requested by Q.C·. were made ava ilable through the kind office of the United States Informat ion S.ervices, in the hope that some of the ideas contained in the m may be of use to students a nd teache rs here- So, take a hint you Arts scholars - get on with some research, B-G. can cer-

tainly use a few sugge~tions for developmentOn behalf of the school t!le "LictrJr'' conveys most grateful thanks to the U.S.l·S· and to the Consul for handing over the books- We also extend our grati. tude to the U-S.I-S. Librarian Mrs. Drayton for her part played in persuading the a uthoritiec; in Was hington to donate this large number of books to us(HO, W. G · (Features Editor)

It has been decided to mak e this an ann ual feature a nd it is hoped that these prizes will act as a stimulur. to both th e q uan titS and quality of articles a nd letten At the same lime the competition may poss ibly be e x tended in t h e near future. for the "L ictor'' staff is con~idering the w idening of th e newspaper's c i r c u 1 a ti o n b y maki:'tg i t available a t oth er Secondary schools. Plans ar e still in the embryo stage, but whe:n they arc put into effect articles will be invited from the schools concerned, and these articles would be elig ible for the "Lictor'' I prizes.

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QUEEN'S COLLEGE LICTOR

THURSDAY, NOV. 27, 1958.

EDITORIAL BOARD Editor W. A. RODNEY

Assistant Editor V . C. JNSANALLY

Features Editor W. G.HO

Sports Editor W. H. BACCHUS

Treasurer W. A. RAMSAHOYE

Distribution Manager G. R. INSANALLY

Supervisor Mr. S.R. R . ALLSOPP

Dear S ir, I have noticed that since the number of boys in the school is increasing and also the numb er of masters' cars, the driveway lead· ing out to the back entrance of the school opening onto Camp Street, is wholly inadequate to cope with all the traffic that passes t o and fro through the small gate Because of this, many accidents have occurred in which thank' fully no one \as been seriously 1nju/ed as yet. I recommend that the driveway and gate be widened to accommodate a1l traffic.

I hope this will catch the eye of the proper authorities.

Pro Bono Publico in Reginae Collegio

N.B. Tiu, t·ie1v8 expressed by fodividuals are no! 11ec,,ssarily tltose of tlie £dito1 inl IJoord ond School as a 1vlwle.

D , ROHEE Lower fourth General.

Ed. Q.C.L.

Veterinary KDITORIAL

WELCOME COMPETITORS Dunng the 't"ecent History and Culture Week, member;; of 1he Queen's College Historical Sodety listened to a very stimulating lecture delivered 'f)y Mr. N. E. Cameron M. A. (car.tab) on "so"lle aspects of t'he history of education in Brjtish Guiana". This history, Mr. Cameron pointed '.>Ut, was characterised l)y a lack r,f any constructive policy, and as a result little progress was efTected.

Fortu~ately, tne situation has improved COl•Siderahly, and the_ pre!>ent govern:nent must receive a large need of praise for possessing such a policy.

One of the most important aspects of their education pro"ramme has recently been initi:ted - the Secondary P la n .

After years of unsuc.:cssf~l petitions to Government the private secondary school a1·e at last to be assisted financially. $50,000 has been approved for 7 schools: Central High, Corentyne High and Indian Educational Trust are all to receive ~10,000; Skeldon High ~3 225· S t. Rose's and S L. S tanisla~s $1,000 each, and 'futorial High $14,775.

These sums are by no means entirely adequate, and there is !>till a vast differenc<: between a G ovt.-aidcd sch o o l such as Tutorial High and a Govt.-run ~chool such as Queen·s College. ln our case the staff and all other expenses are paid L>y Govt., while in the other Secondary schools the grants arc more in the nature of blood tran.;fus1ons. Hut there :s no need t-.1 quibble, for at least this effort provides one e~scntial - a definite beginning, and if this project comes to fruition there is eve 1·v p,>ss1b11ity th a t the Govt.-2.ic.etl ~chools would in time rise to a position of prominence such a:; ours.

This Secondary plan must bold some significance for us, for tf the!'e schools are l)Ol"tcrc1l by Govt. funds, it is only logical to suppose that they would be abJe to compete with us. Even if our hitherto unchallenged sup<!rtl,rity were to be threatened, however, we d0 not begrudge these oilier schools this opportunity·- no member of this :iugu&t instit ut ion could be gu ilty of such n arrowmind edness. In fact we look forward to t he day w he n the J acob and D ias cups sha ll be won in a six-cornered com pe tition, a n d w hen every Secondary sch ool ;s capable of p roducing a G uiana Scholar. In the first place t he school will cer tain ly l~enefit from l<een competition; b u t more importan t still s uch an educational Risorgimen to wo1.: ltl certainly play a maJor nart i n the f u ture progrc~s of the count ry.

W. A. R. l':ditor

CO-OPERATION NEEDED IN

WHAT! ANOTHER SAFETY HAZARD

THE Q.C. LICY.OR

Surgery

On the evening of Thursday 6th November, a very inspiring lecture on veterinary surgery, was delivered to members of the 1-chool's science society by Doctor eter Byrne. Government's veterinary surgeon.

In his talk, lasting for about an hour. Dr. Byrne aptly portrayed the kind of work to which he was attached- He took great pains to explain how harassing a job it was and how it rliffered immensely from that of hi s colleagues who dealt with humansAfter giving us a short his torv of veterinary surgery, the doctor dealt with cows, pointing out as he went along. how easily these animals contracted diseases which were very difficult to detect. An example given. was the swallow. ing of a piece of metal whilst eating. Having treated a few other ~pecies of animal life, in the same \Vay, the doctor offered to answer questions on the subject- Many questions were posed, each of which he answered sin. cerely. Everyone left the room feeling that he had listened to something stimulating and worthwhile.

LA FLEUR, T, H-

THRIFT SOCIETY! De ar Sir,

It is regrettable to say that senior members of th e Q-C· Cooperative Thrift Soc.ie~~ are b~traying their responsibility to this society. This state of affairs has become considerably marked during the past year.

The younger members of the Society in the first, second, third and fourth forms always cooperate exceedingly well in sav. ing regularly and in attending society meetings- The older members from the fifth form up. wards who should really be setting an example to the smaller boys are continually disgracing the cause of this society.

In view of this sad state of affairs, I would take the oppor. tunity of putting forward two suggestions to all the members, committc·e members and the supervisor of this society.

In the first case that the Cooperative society should only cater for boys from the fourth forms and under. since it is a known fact that fifth and sixth formers usually like to spend their money according to their tastes. In this case, all members ~hould be paid their savings to. ;?<'ther with interest at the end of the upper fourth.

Secondly. if the usual way of !"aving is continued members should be fined for not saving at least once in ev<'cy two monthsI am, J. R. K. BUTCHEY (V. Mod)

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1958.

·NEW PREFECTS THE TIDE OF TIME Yet another School year has gone by, and with it have gone many of our distinguished leaders- But the rules of the school, and the necessity for seeing that they are observed still remain.

Consequently, as is customary at the beginning of every school year, a new prefect body has been appointed to upkeep the discipline of the school.

T hose invested with prefec. torial authority !for the school year 1958 to 1959 are: Bacchus, W. H. of Percival House; Isaacs, R. M., Niles, D0-, Parris, w. H. A. L., and Ridley, M. s., of Raleigh House; Robinson, L. A., Tin~. a-Kee, v.

E. R., and Wishart K- M. G. of Austin House; Birkett, H. s., Robin son, N. K., and Rohlehr, H. G. of D'Urban House; Harvey, c.

W. Ho, B. A. Khan, R. M. s. and Pairaudeau, J. G. of Pilgrim House; Nicholson. J. A. and.

Payne, c. R. of Wes ton House, Glasgow, R. B, and Robinson, NA of Moulder House· Hamilton M. of Woolley Hous~. Gray.

M- and Lee w . A- of Cun.ninaham House; 'and Niamatali H. a;d Younge, w. F. D. of Nobbs HouseThis year's Head of School is G- R- Insanally of D'Urban House and his deputy 1s D. Ramharry of Percival House-

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T he beginning of this school year has brought with it many significant featu res into our &chool. This cu rrent school year is witnessing the largest sixth form. and also the largest remove form- There have also been steps. to facilitate the teaching of Music appreciation, BLACK LIST During former years. up to 1957 at any rate, one became accustomed to seeing a mere ull of sixth formers most of wh om happened to be prefects. In Sept ember 1957 some fifty students entered the lower sixths, and of this number 35 were scientifically biassed- The size of this Lower Sixth Modern was about twice that of any of its predecessors, and this was probabl~· one of the factors which caused its masters not to have a great liking for itThe othe~ was "t~e tmdcsirabi_lity of certain candidates as_ sixth formers." The recor? of th15 form was by i~.o means br11l1a.1,1t-. After ~evcral post mortems . 1t was generally agreed by the masters hat inc,din~te la7iness on the part of the students was the re~son f~r bac~wardn~ss. somelhmg which an 1111:ovatton, known as the Black List, sought to remedy\ MASTERS COMPLAIN

The present L. VI M has fortyThese twenty. six boys have up four students- The strain on the to now. shown clearly that they masters has been considerably are well s uited to preserve the lessened by the division into A dignity and respect of prefects. and B groups- Even so, com.

They are doing their best to justify plaints a b o u t the size of the the School's confidence in their form and the unsuitability of ability to lead. It is only hoped cel'tain ::tudC'nts arc not unheard that their fellow Collegians will The contentions of thP masters con tinue to give them all the sup- are entirely justified It should port and co. operation they need be obvious that. the larger the in their difficult task of achieving form is, the more difficult is the Dea r Sir. the ultimate goal of a high stan- task of the master to hold the atThe trite saying that "rules are dard made for a purpose" is probably College_of di~cipline at Queen's tention of all the class all the time, When one calls to mind known by the smallest boy in the that when Queen·s College was GRINSANA LLY school, and most of the boys Head Prefect built the Government declared would willingly admit that in spite that 28 should be the larfest of the inconvenience they somer.umber of boys in ~ form, times entail there, w-0uld be t 1s cle&r then, t mere chaos in the school without the arge numbers in a form would rules. But there is one rule A LAUGH ADAY serve 1.o deter progress. stringently enforced by the Prin. cipal, which has no apparent After a furious argument in the Il seems that, at long last, stu. raison-d' ctre- I am refer ring to sixth form, one of the protagonists the prohibition from the school was heard to exclaim, "Thank dents are realising that an advanced education will not be to compound of the wearing of gar. God, I'm an atheist! ' their disadvantage.

This way ments other than the school uni5 Mof thinking offers an excellen1 form- L arge numbers of boys Umpiring in the recent House are always to be found, when Cricket Competition, Professor explanation for the increasing school is not in session, playing Dabby returned the remarkable size of the sixth forms- Here rises the question of whether the table.ltennis, watching games, or figures of 5 for No Reason. :;ch oo l will be able to accommod engaged in some extra curricular ate all of t he prospective sixt h activity. AU these boys are forced formers. At present the labs- are to wear white shirts and this imTowards the end of t.hb year, just about unable to accommodate to he exact starting on t he 9th pose a great strain since white the large sixth forms, and it h as of December, Shaw's "The Apple is so easily soiled, It has been now become necessary to agitate suggested that this would discour.

Cart " w ill be acted on the for bigger labsage any spiv-like tendencies in Queen't College stage. One of LARGEST F ORM Shaw's later plays about t he the boys but things are certainly struggle between Mon!'\rchy, De- ca1Tied to extremes, for boys have The occupants of that celeThe V Remove, an intermediate mocracy, and the Vested Inter- been sent oII the compound for brated cell in the School, known ests of Big Business ("Break- wearing shirts that were in no as the Staff Room, have also science form, is now the largest form in th school. havir.g about ages), it serves as a welcomf' way "loud" or florid- One w on. been in the news .of late. The contrast tc; the usual Shake- ders what objection there can ''piece de rC'sistance" is obvious- 50 students- A long. needed divipoor;an plav. It is so hecause it possibly be to wearing a shirt ly the blow that Cupid has once sion mto sets has now been portrays issues which would stim- whose colour is slightly more ex- more struck-this time at the effected. This division was deulate a country like ours which citing than white, cream. or plain i:,ick of the bunch Once the idol sirable not only from the point of is so rapidly becoming fully poli- blue - even. a coloured de~ign of all intendmg bachelors Mr. view of the size of the form, but also from that of its composition on a white T.shirt is an offence! tically conscious.

David S. Insanally, was married Indeed, it was intended tha~ With respect to the nether gar- on Nov. 9, 1958-an event that The present rlivision sets aside '·Henry V" should be put on this ments the Principal's bug.bear one did not expect to happen the students who have not covered ;ear; but that demanded a cast of seems to be the denim trousers. ''never in a hundred, never in a the whole science syllabus. Bv fifty actors. and su!licient quali- I do not think that there is any- thousand, never in a milJion a strang0 coincidence this division fied actors could not be found. thing revolutionary in their years." The "Lictor'' takes this a l,-o di~tinguishes those who have "The Apple Cart" hac; a cast of colour, and I know that most of opportunity of extending its best been rcasonablv succes~fi..J at the ·o·· Level exa~inati,m. This last the boy~ prefer these ''dungerees" f:fteen, and so was chosen. wishec, to the happy couple. consideration has not failed to The production or the play is in for their durability- Perhaps I impress the boys, and I ti1ink that t he very capable hand s of Mr. have overlooked the reason for The, e were t he usua 1 arrivals Clayton, who is giving us the the ban on these clothes, if so. I and depa1·t ures. New faces this m<Ht uf them have cause to be grateful. would be grateful for any in.

Len eflt of his experience. term were t hose of Mr. M. de Viz Those wh o s hall be seen in the formation on the subject- · Delph, and M r. F . M A. Claxton.

MU S IC ROO:W 1>lay include G R. I nsanally and I r emain, The former, who was first a grad"V. C. Insanally, along with H .

Yr s. truly We have noticed that music uate of L ondon University after Niamatali, in t he leading roles.

T- o. HOLDER, spend i!1g fo ur years in U.K. period.: now feature proryiincntly We hop e y ou en joy i t. <L. 6 C-) gained t he M.A. (Hons. Edin.) in on the timetable- T he abolition .ROBINSON, N.A. U Vl ~En glish. and has returned to teach of the prep. form has created an English. Mr. Claxton, (B.A. Hons. extra room- This room is now Lond.) is teaching Hist ory. Mr. called the music room. Adorning J . J Nibs, B.A., 'l.as returned the walls of this room are pictures D a tes . .. . Tuesday, December 9th with a B.Sc. degree in addition of a few great musicians- T his. and Mr. Rock w ith his Diploma as well as a few other fai;:tors, 8.00 Thursday, December 11th in Ed ucation . Leaving u s were has served to improve the attitude Mcssr,:-. Hetram, O wen, Wil.son, of the students towards music of ( p.111.

Friday, December 12th Dyal a nd Jonas. The last, w'h ose the classical style. In co:1clusion Prices . .. . Reserved Seats v o i c e would be lamentably I w ould like to express the hopd ~1.00 m issed from soft-shoe soccer has that these innovations w:Jl serve gone to England to do a Univer- te improve the standard of the Unreserved Seats school as a wholeSOets. sity cour se.

V. C l NSANALLY, THOMAS, E. S. C Obtain able from the School (Ass1. Editor}.

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"HENRY V" UPSET BY 'APPLE CART~

Behind The Wooden Curtain:-

"THE APPLE CART"

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QUEEN'S COLLEGE LICTOR

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1958.

G.C.E. RESULTS

LOOK OUT FOR

MILITARY DIARY

ANALYSED

THESE CHANGES

In the earfy part of the term, Lt. Rock, who had just returned from leave, decided to resign from the Corps. T his resignation, due to the pressure of other activities, is a loss to the Corps, as he was a very active officer, who took a keen interest in the welfare of the Corps.

Lt. Clarke, who was acting in his absence, has been subsequently appointed as Second in Command.

The Corps has also lost the services of Lt· Dial, who is on leave, and 2/Lt. Too-Chung, who has gone abroad to study.

This year's "0" Level exam.

Some time ago a "Lictor" corresults were most satisfactory in respondent pointed out how in. comparison with previous years' congruous the dark and sombre results. T he upper fourth did Honours Boards looked in the atquite well in the "0" Level con- tractively painted Assembly ·Hallsidering the fact that they are not Perhaps it was this letter that prepared by the masters for this spurred officialdom into action. for exam· at all· They take it quite the old honour-boards were soon simply in their stride just as an removed, and it is now understood ordinary school exam. and in fact that they will be replaced by new in July, they have to take both ~he ones made of anodised aluminium.

G ·C·E. and the regular promotion Demba has decided to present the exams. school with five of these honourThe upper fourths reached a boards, while it is intended that total of 83 passes, representing at least five more will be pur.

80% of subjects taken, compared chased from this company· The with 77% in 1957 and 68% in boards will be the natural grey 1956· colour of aluminium. but they Th~ fifths totalled 488 passes- will go through a process to make 71 % compared with 62% in 1957 them more resistant to the atand 67% in 1956· mosphere and less liable to tar.

The Remove seems to be de- nish. All the names will be transterioraling each year. This year !erred to tl'le new honour. boards totalled 84 passes-53% as against and it is hoped that their lustrt62% in 1957 and 69% in 1956· will be significant both as a reThe total number of passes for :ninder of past glory and as an in. all forms including supplemen- spiration to the fulu1·e- · taries was 582 this year compared with 511 last year and 513 in --1956- The greatest number of After about two years on tne passes was gained in English she!f. the plan to build two new L anguage-85 which is a record. science laboratories is now to be The passes m Elementary Maths •mplemented. It was first prohave equalled the previous record pu~<'d 1hat these laboratories be -76The passes in French built on either ~ide of the En. Physics, Chem. and Add Math~ l:·ance Hull, while at the same have also broken previous records I time the SlafI-Room should be · Gone are the days when 9 passes ex.tende.d · 'I'h at part ofth e proJecr were considered the maximum concernmg the Staff Room seem::. amount of passes to be procured to . h~".'e little chance of ma. by one boy, Two boys now have tenal1sing at the moment, but tht: 11 passes, having taken subjects Entrance Hall will soon be Jinked in the upper fourths and the fifths to .the laboratories on both sides Kunar L.S-leaving Fifth Modern Thrs ought to be happy news not and Niamatali-leaving Fifth Re- only for ou~ scien~e faculty but move, Five boys also have 10 also for tne increasing number of passes each students who make use of our Five passes were obtained by labs. in the afternoons and Butchey J . R. K- of Upper fourth c-venmgs. modern and 7 boys in the upper W. A. RODNEY fourths obtanied all four subjects Editor they look In 1957 two boys had 5 passes and only 1 other boy had 4 passes.

The numbers on the roll now· totals 63 Cadets and 50 Recruits· Promotions:

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The following promotions were made w.e-f. 3/10/58.

C-S.M. Insanally to Cadet Officer, Sgts. Austin and Dennison to Cadet Officers.

C.Q·M·S Ho, B.A: to C.S:M. Corporals Pairaudeau, Ridley and Rohlehr to Sergeants.

Lance Corporals Holder Robinson, L. A·. Robinson. N·K., and Joao to Corporal~.

Cadet;: Bankav Carrvl E<!wards., Haniff; · ibbott: i saacs; K ersting, Lashley, Massay; Newport, N1amalali and Ramharry to Lance Corporals· Ca?:ets Bacchus, Chan, Green: H am11 t.on. R oct ney an d H us b an d s lo Se~1or Cadets.

Appointments: L/Cpl, Rarnharry appointed i/c stores. . . ~nr. Cdt- Hamilton appointed 2 1/c stores.

Snr- Cdt. Cha ppointed Company Clerk· As several practice shoots, ~both on the mini~ture and open ranges) ha:,,e been incorporated ir. t~e . tr~inmg programmes, a hvel!cr interest has been noted in some of t~e C:adets, but tne attendance IS ~till too low.

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Inter-House Cricket Competition Early in October the annual House Crkkei Competition comn~enced. The ten Houses were divided into two sections _ A ar.d B. The A 5 ection consisted ot PERCIVAL (A), RALEIGH (B), AUSTIN (C), MOULDER (G) and NOBBS (L).

The B section consisted of D"URBAN (D), PILGRIM (E), WESTON (F), WOOLLEY (H) and Cunningham (K).

The matches were each of 2 days' duration and the system of f'coling was as follows-3 points for a win on 1st innings; 5 points for an outright win and 1 point each for a drawn game. Before ,he start there appeared to be small possibility of any House f,aming 5 points in so little time (5 hours).

But in the "A." Section MOULDER HOUSE proved that it was not as ditfu:ult as it seemed. Under school players, Spence, Holder and Roopnaraine they blasted their way to the top of the section with two straight e;utright victories. However, in their 3rd game they were 'upset'

by AUSTIN HOUSE but ca~e back in their final game to gain a_nother outri~~t victory. At the 1~m~ of wntmg all the prehmmary games haye not been played but Mouldei is sure to be m th~ final~ (for t~e 2nd year runnmg) with 15 pomts. Second i-- NOBBS who. ::lfter 2 crushing defeats in earlier games, came back courageously to gain 8 points in their last 2 games.

Third lies AUSTIN who, with · t e points may we11 move m o second place should they win their final match against RALEIGH. Fourth is PERCIVAL with 4 points and at the bottom j.:: RALEIGH with 1 very fortunate point.

The "B" section was a bit dull.

Pilgrim House, under school captain Khan, having won all four matches on first innings lead the sect i O n with 12 p O int s.

Next in order are WESTON (last year's winners) and WOOLLEY with 6 points each. WOOLLEY, however, may move up to 9 points as they have 1 match to play. Fourth lies CUNNINGHAM with 3 ooints (and 1 match to play) while the rear i!; brought up by D'URBAN who have yet to score a point for 2 years running. so the finalists are already dec ide d-MOULDER (last years 1 ur..ners-up) and PILGRIM. In the bowling department there was no surprising ele ment, for all those with more than 15 wkts. are sc'hool bowlers-Roopnaraine (32 wkts.), Spence R. ('.l4), Singh (20) and Spence (18) and Khan.

But in the batting averages top honours arc held by two very promising youngsters Zitman and Butchcy - surpassing such stalwarts as Khanand Grant who lie next in order.

C. J. M . SINGH, L .fi.C.

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The Wight Cup team has, on the whole, improved considerably during the second half of the !)resent cricket season and ,t his is & result of a definite increase of the alacrity of the individual members of the team However, in spite of this commendable feature, our team is, at the moment of writing placed last lJut one in the averages.

The season resumed in August.

Our first match was against the G.C.C., and we won this match in fine style. In the matches which have followed, we have not been so lucky and so far, we have lost two and have drawn two matches. Mention must be made of the following members who, by their efforts, were of immense help to the side: Mr. Eyre the captain who made 74 not out vs. C.G.C.; 27 and 28 vs. D.C.C. and so far ho.s 34 not cut vs. P.S.C. H. S. Birkett a new-comer who scored 72 vs. G.C.C., 62 vs.

B.G.C.C. and 34 vs. C.H.S. K. Saul 70 n.o. vs. B.G.C.C. and 21 anci 28 vs C.H.S. S. A. Farley, 72 vs. B.G.C.C. and :iO not out vs. c.G.C. Singh made 27 vs. G .C.C. aud Holder 46 vs. G.C.C. In the bowling d(;partmcnt Roopnarine a very successful offs pinner took 4 for 70 vs. G.C.C., Singh 3 for 31 vs. G.C.C Edwards 1.for 79 vs. C.H.S. This is the second concurrent season in which we have been thirteenth out of the fourteen · the competition, b ut it teams m is hoped that our status would improve next year.

S. A. FARLEY,

CUPToward the end of the last school year, a pen picture of th.a Northcote Cup was written, in which a few scathing remarks were made aoout some very promising cricketers. Since then, what one may term a "minor revolution", has taken place in the First XL McWatt and Nicholson are no longer the opening batsmen of the .,chool-which job has now been taken over by Grant and Ramprashad- and going in at Nos. 3 and 4, they are now in the opinion o( all, better stroke-makers than they ever were, McWaft, in particular has developed some very attractive shots on the offSJde, while Nicholson is at present the only batsman, who uses his feet to slow-bowlin~. As a result, he has been the most consistent batsman in the XI. "Olaf" Grant has confounded the critics and has emerged as one of the top batsmen in the school. Undaunted, he refuses to be intimidated by any bowler and his cc,mplete relaxation at the wicket is most invaluable.

A.nether one of the bright sparks on the threshold of this r.ew era in school cricket looks like Orin Spence, a hard-hitting batsman who cam~ into his own agairut the E.I.C.C., and much to the surprise of all; young Charlie Spence seems to be developing into a promising all-rounder. Other less fo1·tl1nate batsmen have heen the t w O Ramprashads, Nile,, and Baptiste.

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Over the Remembrance Day weekend the sc:hool was visited by a party of students from Echols High School of Mackenzie who opposed us at cricket, football and table tennis. The results c,f the games played are as follows:Cricket: On Saturday and Sunday (2 games) vs Colts XI. E.H.S. 1st innings 86 (V. Persaud 6 for 27). Colts XI 63 for 3 ~Zitman 35)-m~tch drawn vs; ~Vight Cup XI Wight Cup XI 96 for 5 (dec:ared). E.H.S 30 for 2 -match drawn.

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E.H.S. defeat~d Colts XI 1-0.

Table tenms on Monday afteruoon Q.C; defeated E.H S. by four game~ to one.

The volleyball ma_tch scheduled for Monday m?rmng was not played. The series may then be r eg~rded as drawn each school havmg won one ganie. ~he tour o_n the whole was quite _successful and _we. hope that this may_be t~e beginning of e closer 1·elationship between the two schools.

There has been a noticeable decrease of interest in Table Tennis in the school over the past year. I b~lieve that this interest can only be stimulated by an increase in the number of tournaments run by the school.

HOLDER, T. 0.

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We were severely hit at the end of the last.term by the departure from school of both our captain and vice-captain-Tang C. M. W. and Khan, M. A. who l1ave gone to further their studies abroad. It is interesting to note that inspite of this we were still able to have three of our ,b oys in a representative B.G. schoolboys team which op~o~ed a team of players from. Tnrudad. Edwards, T. C. won while Holder, T. O. and Odle, P. D. lost their iames. 'r he school's handicap tournament has started anci there have been about 84 entrnnts. The handicaps range from 5 to l 4. From the draw it seems likely that the semi-finalists will be Holder, T. (-5), Odle, P. (-3), McGowan (-2) and Edwards (-5).

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petition open to all T.T. clubs in the colony. Last year we entered this tournament and were defeated by 3 games to 2 by the Invaders who went on -to win the cup. Thu;, however, does not The Queen's Collt-ge bran..:h of seem to worry the boys who are the Inter-Schools Ch r i,, t I an set on .becoming the chan1pions Fellowship will be one year old for 1958.

The School XI no long<::r has on Nov. 29. It was on that day ~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!'I the services of Roberts, who has iast year that Mr. Bell, director HOLDER, T.0.

Stop Press: Holder, T. and Odle, been suspended_ for a period of G of ISCF for the Caribbean, visited . . . months. Lew 1 s. a~d C_harlie the College and introduced the P. hav~ both been knocked out of The begmnmg of this term saw Spence, the two Juruor spinners JSCF here. Our first anniversary the competition. a re~olutionary change in the :PP~?r t_o have settl~d down to will be marked by Mr. Bell's rerunnmg of the Tuck shop, -: a big cricket and bright futures turn on Fri. Nov. 21, when there change however, that has certain. are expected for them bot~. f!'- will be a joint meeting of the ly been for the better. The re- new force to be reckoned with, is Queen's and Bishops' groups. freshmen ts, or should I say, lack ~·ou~g ~oopnaraine, who playing The main purpose of the ISCF of refr_eshments p~evious to this, m his first ~orthcote. Cup Match is, as its name implies, to provide were simply shocking, One had no took 5 for 1,1. Ket•p it up, Roop- fellowship for all Christians in choice but to make the best of the 1~araine ! the school, without regard to The August holidays provided u sual_"drink a_nd a :,011:•, varied A word now about the field .. denominational or other difocc~~JOnally with .:1 _milk ~nd a ing. At times, it has been very f~renc~s. There are two . hig~- three main events in which the rolr- Now, ~ven Trmculo has good and clean, but sometimes lights m each term: the first !s troop partook, viz. Work and Earn ext~nd~d his vocabulary on one could very well wonder if the the party held ;i.t o~r ~pon~o.r s Week; The Rally and the troop dellca_c1es ~nd can b~ heard College produces only old men. ho~e and the ocher is th>'? Jomt camp, all of which came off fairly ordermg . mmce..rolls, ~me-tarts, Niles, -the wicket-keeper needs a metmg of the QC and B HS well- Our representatives at the Rally were a young and inexpeanut-bntt1es:--to men~ion a few hit more coaching and some of groul?s· , .. of the ne~ arti.*s of d~et. At the Olaf's relaxation when behind This t~rm we haa the puv1le~e perienced group but they sucroot of this goo~work! is the new the stumps. While one remedy of ~earmg a You~h for_ Christ ceeded in placing third in the caterer, ,Mrs- J . Martin Menezes, for suc'h people as Lewis a nd musical qua~tette mclu,du~g the junior competition- The troop who has lent her charm and taste Charlie Spence is more Physical South American and Caribbean was also represented at the openfor good food to the benefit of <!Xercises.

Y F C directors. About fifty boys ing of Camp Jubilee (tAkinson by Senior Scouts Q.C· boys- The cricket players were present to enjoy the melo- Field) are at last getting something Undoubtedly the outstanding dies of the viol~n. 1:?ugle, trom- Cholmondeley and Rickford. material for their "Tea'' (this fielrlsmen in the team are bone and accordion.

The scout group is now underprobably accounts for the recent Orin Spence, McWatt, Gary We eagerly lo~k forward. to losses); and the only.too-welcome Ramprashad and Grant. further progress m the c:ommg going a transitional mediocre stage compared with its former heights midday-meal has been intro. year.

This has been due mainly to the W, B. YOU NG. duced· The latter is of immense R. N. S. KHAN. departure of many of our stalbenefit, and one would have thought, that at such a reasonable ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~:~s.~,,un- wart~ from the school, The last of these wac; "Pussy" Persaud our charge of 50 cts- per boy, a larger THE troop leader. who left for Engnumber of the country boys land in September, In an effort to wot1ld have seized this oppor. · raise the standard of scouting in tunity. Give it a try. you country , ,~ the troop. 5 senior scouts have folk. so that this worth-while ~ .,. had to be recalled to the duties of system would be contin ued! ~ patrol leaders in the junior sec1 SAFE - SPEEDY - DEPENDABLE And there's more to come! New tion. Owing to this the senior techniques designed to serve the AT c\ LL TIMES C' ALL AND INSPECT THE LATEST M0DELS patrols have been temporarily boys faster, the introduction of suspended and a special monthly iced products- .. But, remember AT meeting is held instead. The last boys, your co.operation is needed "YC• ·E STORE 01:e t~ok t~e form of a short night A bit more politeness and patience aJ ' hike m pairs around the environs and your suggestions for further ~ I ,JitlJTED of Georgetwn- Afterwards they improvements would be most HI HINCKS STREET ~ were treated to light refreshments welcome. ' i .,......,.~~ ... . ......... ~~~~~~ cooked by the juniorsF - C, I: (Asst: Ed.) ,,,__ ______...., ~ constructive programme for th1~ term has been arranged by which we hope to increase the number of second and first-class scouts. This will culminate in an original Field Day at the end of Term instead of the usual Christmas party. The troop is presently being instructed in Morse by Mr. Archer, a former The Finest Selection at the Best Prices in Town Q-C. scout-

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During this term interest in hockey has continued to increase, especially among the junior mem. bcrs of the school. and it is getting more and more difficult to arrange practices for the huge num. ber of boys wishing to play the ,.;ame. Seniors usually play on Mondays and Juniors on Fridays, b ut this is far from adequate· It 15 suggested that to remedy this ~ituation another day be allocated to the playing of hockey, which would give the less outstanding players a greater chance of improvingThe main concern at the momen,t i~ the building of a strong school XI. We played only one im.

A'T' portant match this term- against G.C·C· (A) which we lost 4-1.

However, this same team defeated us 10-1 on a previous ~ occasion. so that ther~ definitely l • 28 WATER STREET J5 some improvement m the stan. l ' · dard of our hockey. ~ HOLDER, G - B ~SSSSSS~~,--n~--,.,_"'-.~"-'~~~~S~~ "S-.~ - - ,;~~'-"Sv

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