The QC Lictor - December, 1965

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Queen' s Ba gs B o t h G u ia.na .* Scholars h i ps.

J . L . .ROBINS ON

C. A . YING

This year, along with our record-breaking eighteen Advaneied Levt'I distinctions, Queen's won both Guiana Scholarships-showing that we have foJly reco,·.ered from Bead-Master On: the "depression" of 1963, when we failed to win either of the two. In 1964 Mr. C. E. Denbow won one of the two scholarships and now, Messrs. C. A. Ying and 1tfeani1ig IndeJJe1idence J. L. Robi{lson have won both. The last time wie won both- was in J9 32, and, as is On the morning of Monday to make sacrifices suc,h as theY, I cuc;tomtuy, the Lictor brings you pen-pctures of our scholars. the 25th of October, the had never had to make while

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Mr. Colin Anthony Ying was born in February 1947 and p•1bered Q.C. as a government County Scholar in September 1957.

His scholarship was originally for five years, but at the end of this period it was extended for a further four years.

w"-s put into Austin (C) House· Like Ying, he was in the 'Upper Fourth Classical when he sat the Oxford and Cambridge G.C.E. Level exam, pass- I i.ng in EngUsh Language, English Literature, History. Latin, French, a nd Spanish. The fol)owing ,y ear ( 1963) he pa~ ed i.n History, Elementary In July 1961 (while in the Mathematics, and Physks with Upper Fourth Classical) Ying Chemiotry. sat and passed the Oxford and Cambridge G.C.E. Ordinary I ~vel F.xi\minati.on in six subjects - English Lan~age, History Latin, French, Spanish, and' Elementary Mathematics.

1'-lli. J. L. ltUi:SlN~ON The next year he secured passes in English Literature, AddiEditor of the Llctor and Editor tional Mathematics, and Physics of the Magazine ( 1963-64); with Chemistry. and Assistant Editor of t he In June 1964 he sat the Magazine in 1964-65. He TTniversity of London G.C.E. wrote many articles for the Advanced Level Examination Lictor and for the Magazine, and passed in Latin, French, and and in the Summer Term of Spanish - his grades being B 1964-65 received a prize in Latin and French and an E for the best Lictor article. in Spr.mish. He remained i.n sch ool for another year, so Robinson leaves his best as to re-sit the same three :MR. C. A. YING wishes with Q .C., hoping that subjects in the hope of winwe will keep 'Up a high acaRobinson gained a Q .C. ning the Guiana Scholarship.

Senior Scholarship in 1963 to demic standard. He notes, This time he got distinctii::m s attend school .for two molle however, that there is a lack in Latin and French and a B in of discipline in Q .C. and that Spanish, which was enough to years to take the 'A' Level more individualism is needed. exam, in which he got distincmake him the most successful candidatie at the 'A' Level tions in English and French and We hope that all the boys a B in History. exams this year. o f Queen·s will try to follow the example of these two At present Ying is in CanaRobl· nson intends to study sta Iwarts, if not in work , l h en da on a scholarship to study French which was g-r:mted by English, pr~ferably at Cam- I in the interest of societies bridge. :While here, he. was " nd in conduct. the Canadian Government, He very active m extra-curricular left B. G. after taking his Lon- activities. He was a member On behalf of Queen"s Coldon 'A' Level exams in June of the Co-op Society; Recording lege, we bid farewell to Mr. and is studying at the Unive1·1 and then Vice- Ying and Mr. Robinson, wishsity o f Manitob11. After com- Secretary President of the Literary and ing them success in their studpleting his course in French he Debating Society; Features ies overseas. intends to use the Guiana Scholarship funds to study Spa nish in England.

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Headmaster gave the aSS1Cmb)y a ~ort lecture on "The Meaning of rln~endence."

The time he chose for this leeture was significant, for it was Guiana Week; and as the Premier had not long before left for the Independence Talks, the theme for Guiana week was ··1.ndepiendence."

Mr. Hetram said that Independence meant th.at we .Guianese would have to make our own decisions, and could not expect to leavie that responsibility to others. The Government would b,e faced with grave decisions in foreign affairs ( formerly taken carie of by Britain), while the citizens would be camed upon

we were a colony. Secondly, Independence would not give us licence to do as we like at the expense of others. To ensure the wielfare and progress of our oountry we would have to conduct ourselves in an orderly manner ; if not, Guyana would be in chaos.

The Headmaster concluded by pointing out, that independe,nce was not burdenso~. but something to be weloomed j oyowJ!y by ieveryone. We, as students, should bear these points in mind. For if we are to be leaders, or at least, responsible citizens in t he community, we must develop a spmt of responsibility and a sense of discipline right here in school.

On Friday, 5th November, and answered question oon variMr. Derek '.Walco1jt'1 famous ous aspects of West Indian and West Indian Poet and dramat- English Litt:rature. Present at t1$t, who was in BG to adjudi- the meeting were over o~cate the finals of the National hundred students, teachers and · Drama Festival, visited nuns from St. Joseph"s High Queen's College. St Lucian- School, Bishops' High Schoo'), born Mr. Walcott at p-resent and Queen's College. After a literary critic on the 'Trini- the meeting, Mr. Wa1cott audad Guardian· staff, read tographed books, and chatted some of his poetry from his with students of the various book " In A Green Nig ht,.. schools.

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Ying was extremely popu'la1 with boys and staff alike. H e held a variety of posts, being among other thin gs H ead of Cunnin ~ha m House in 196465 and at the same time Head of School. President of the Circle F rancais and twice President o f the Christian Fellowship Society. He als-o plaved table-tennis and hockey.

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G. E. GPlot, D em ba ScJwla ;·ship, C i1•il En9i.n~erina, New Rr11r, ~1 ·,;ck. Car1ada. .J. L. Ch•TI . nem'Jrt Schola.rrhip. Chemical Enqineerinq. Neu, Brunswiclc, Canada. M. Stuart, Demba Scholarship Mechanical Engineerir1g , 1J.W.I. (St . A ugustine).

T. Sm-ith. Go1wrnment Co1v1iti011al S ,·holarship, 1966 Mec/1anfral Engineerinp H. W est, Gouernment Conditional Mr. J e ffr.ev Lamber~ Robin- S rholarshin 1966. Geology. M. A. Patterson , Government !'l nn entered Q .C. in September CcmditionaJ Scholanhip 1966. Geology. G. Nooten, Govern1956 at the age of nine and ment Con ditional Scholarship 1966, Geology.

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best in our schiodl-work as well as in our games, and b y have one of t he most beauti- good beh aviour, uphold the ful school-buildings in this reputa tion of the best institu~ country ; let us, by !doing our , tion in Guia na.

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At the beginning of term. the 600-odd Queen's Friday , December 3. 1965 Colllege boys must a ll have 1 been impressed by the buildT he views expresicd by in dividuals are not necessarily those o.f the Edi- ing's shiny new appearance.

Every single room , from the i-Orial Board and School as a whole.

H a ll to the Biology Museum, has at least been repainted. and had its broke,n windows reEDITORIAL BOARD. placed .

T he most striking cha ngie was the b right colours Editor ..... .

J . R. R ickford. of ye~low, blue and ~old. The Features Editors E. A Spencer repainting wa,; done during the R. A ·f l e tcher last few weeks of the Augu!i Sports Ed'i.tor ......

K. H enderson h olidays, a nd necessitated the Asst. S ports Editor K. Gordon postpone ment of our re-openA dvertising Manager M. Dow ing da te from the 20t h to the K. Singh Asst. A dv. Manager 2 7th of September.

Ci rculation Manager G . R. G lasheen This is the first time t hat Supervisor Mr. V. J. Ra mraJ. this ~ntire building has been

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L. F. S. Burnham, t hat the reno vation has b een effected.

The Premier, himself an old b oy of Queen's, had promised to have it d one during a lecture to some b oys of the U pp er School in July. But while We join with the cou ntry and the w orld in con- d eclaring· his intention o f giv-

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appea rance, the Pre mier mad e

the g rant ing of Independence to Guyana for May 26, it clear that it is our duty t,o 1966. The co-operation, comprom ise and toleration maintain a high acadiemnc standard.

which played such a sig nificant part in the success of Ti...~ Pr,_m:er' i; words are a t he conference is an example which all citizen s of challenge to each memb e r of Queen's

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Guyana w o uld do well to emu late. It will become increasingly important for Guyanese to subordinate thei r personal wishes to the nationol interest, if harmony and progress are to be features of an !ndependent G uyana . This can only be possible where a strong patriotic sense of Guyanese Nationalism prevail s, Nationalism in turn demands a sense of responsibi lity if it is to be m eaningful.

Independence wi ll mark a new era in Guyanese History. There will be an increased demand for compet ent Guyanese youths to assist in the successfu l development of th eir nation.

Queen's Co llege, one of the foremost secondary schools in G uy ana, w il l need to play a spacial part in satisfying the demand . A re we p repared to ful fi ll this need ?

Al ready, t here has been a noticeable decline in sch oo l sp irit, and a reluctance has been shown to assist in the running of the school through participat ion in extra-curricular activities.

Th is attitude it goes without saying is deplorabl e; it is far removed from the sense of responsibil ;ty which Independence wi ll necessitiate. Q.C. students should ponder well the views put forward in the " FORUM" of thi s issue ("Apathy in Extra-Curricular Acti vities", Page 8) and prepare themselves for the implications of Ind ependence in G uyana, by adopting a healthy, responsible school-spirit here at Q ueen's College.

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I think th at it1 is n ecesc:; ary for EV ~ · uden t, dun:ng each period, to h ave some idea of th e t ime. b ut, I h ave noticed that h ardly any of the clocks in rt:h e school ar e wor k ine:. Of those few 1h at are working, few carr y the correct time .

I would appreciate it ver, much if some ' hine: is donr about nhis. I remember tha t some time a go, t l-i ..re w ;:i c; r szrou p of b oys w h ose duty it was to keep t h e clocks set Couldn' t this b e reintroduced?

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THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE LICTOR

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Review:

MAMAGUY At the 1965 Drama Festival, the Q.C. Dramatic Society entered a West Indian play, Mamaguy written by Freddie Kissoon. The play was produ ced and directed by Mich ael J . Dow. It wrent throu gh th e prelimina ries to th e fin al on Thursday 4th at the Theatre Guild Playhouse where it placed 4th in the final ratings.

The pla y ,was set in poor Port-of-Spain in the " bachy" tenem~t of two Trinidadian youths, Lennie and Rupert.

The plot of the story is that t hese boys, who are unemployed, a re living on a regular " small piece" fr>om an uncle in the United States. Lennie, played b y Neville MacAndrew, had written his uncle explaining tha t he had been forced into a " shot-gun marriage, " to obtain the money.

Then Virgie, " vivacious and i,imp1e," ( Charles Maxwe ll) entered with ti--~ news that uncle G avin Bourne was in Trinida d a nd WI\S coming- in for a visit. The b oys a re thr nwn in to rrm fusion b eca ure. thev real;7e thl\t uncl,.

C.1win ( A11brPv Trn>"'nh ) ,.,ill meet Le nnie b11t ,..,., "'' f" r,-,r

money. Th,e story then comes to a dramatic ending as it is discovered that the money was payable t o Mrs. Debbie Roach, and could not be dlaimed , as no such person really existed.

Unde rneath the superficial humour of the play was a satirical description of the problems of so many unemployed -~ ;ni,hdians who deoend on th e MflP P y sent by· immigrants to support t h eir re·i· · .. b nrk home.°' The scenery was extremely suitable, with paper walls, a n old ~afe, a grandfather ck>ck

A lso. one felt tha t enamel wares would have conveyed a betrer image to a Guyanese audience than the alnminium utensils used.

The acting on the whole was quite fair although, as th.e adjudicator pointed out, the pace was a b it breatMess.

MacAndrew was extremely good a nd convincing. Rickford a nd J oseph we re also good .

Maxwell made a very good effort but" one felt that he was a lit1Jle too old to b e really convincing and I think that a younger b oy should have b een give n the part. Holder' s v oice

l~-A·11Ul~AL lJ.KAltlA } '~~·r1VAL The Q. C. D ramatic Society en tered the play ' "Mamaguy," by t red die Kissoon, for t he National Drama Festival. The Cast included MacAndrew, Rick ford , Max.well, J osep h, and Holder, a nd was produced

by M . J. Uow. A grea t deal of e ffo rt was put into the play, esp ecia lly th e scenery, a nd a t lhe p relirninari~. it e merged the best prod uction of t hese staged at Y.W.C.A., and was subsequently forwarded to the fi na ls.

On T hursday 4th November, "Mamaguy"' was staged ir. the fi na ls of the National D rama F estival which w as adj u dicated by Derek Walcott, W I

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Lennie a nd Rupert (John Rickford) are left in confusion, then they hit upon the idea of getting Lennie 's girlfriend, Myrtle, to act as his wife while uncle Gavin is visiting. The plan failed however as Myr tle (played by Lloyd Holder) is ob structed by her mot her. M~ re d espair - - the n - - - , Lennie suggest s tha t Rupert gets dressed up in V irgie's clothes and pretend to be the wife. A recalci.tra nt Rupe rt is finally coaxed into accept ing the role and the p lay moves into the exciting p a rt as in sweeps Gavin Bourne, complete wi.th a cigar a nd a yankee accent.

poe t and d ramatist. T~ play came ,o ff at its very b est, and recei.ved a tremendous ovation. O ur sister sch ool Bishops' a lso took p art in the finals, and emerged nmner-up for the best J unior P lay. Buxton County High School, which staged an origina l play " The P r,o rnised Land"' written by Sydney King, emerged winners of the Junior Section.

The p roduction of " Mamaguy" has provided a new interest in the Dramatic Society.

In order to increase interest further, the Inter H ouse Drama Competition will he staged early next term.

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Lenno:r (N. McAnd1·ew) pleqds with Myrtle (L. Holder ) wliile Uncle Garin (E. Joseph) looks on perplexed.

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and a two-bun e r oil-stove stuck in a corner. There were a kw mi nor faul ts in the direction of the play.

For instance, when uncle Gavin came in, h e was given a small ch"l.ir to sit in, whil ~t Len nie s:1t in th e rocking ch air the po!>ition of importa nce usua lly re..<-erved fo r Grandpa.

was too soft but his p erformance was otherwise quite creditable.

There were not very many boys to witness the finals and this was very disappofoting More of us should h a ve b een th.ere to give our actors support.

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The formal greetings are ma d e a nd then uncle wa nts to meet the wife " Debbie, D ehh i.e d o-rlo. ·• calls Lennie. and At ~is moment the S 'tudent t his. ~ Jen e- hv prncec;!': of ratim walks Mrs. D ebbie Council is busy attem ptin g ficatibn, has started. To some Ro;a1ch. The fresh yankee soon to prod uce a permanent con- this seems u n nPcess;irv and detects some shyness about stitu ion.

Appar ently la, t a waste of ·' ime, b ut it is re" D ehbie." Then he detects year th e coun cil h ad to w or k ouired i10 en-ure th at st udent!' some " ha rdness" and is sus- on an 'ad hoc' basis due Ho the make their own con s itution p icious about t he Mrs. Roach fact t hat it h ad n o clearly de- which th ey will respect. DurH e the n e mbarrasse; t he cour,le fi n ed princip les, powers and ing a number of council meethv requesting to see the b aby. I obj ectives. and it was trying ings, 11he individual clauses H e is stalled in this, however, 1 to operate on a sample consti- of the f'ir st ·draf have been and Debbie aoes off apparent- tu ion ten yE.ar s old . This discus,ed and modifi ed after ly undet ected . The story then year· <; execu tive wants these the Headmast er's approval m ove d into top gear when matters settled as soon as Th e n ext st'ep is a du plica ion Myrtle walked on stage and, possible so ha_11 th e ~ou ncil of t he modified draft for in front of the uncle b ehaves can .;tart r unnmg efficiently. individual forms to discu, s as if she, were the ~ife. Len- The P re, ident is being most clause by clause in form meetnie just manages to get her careful to ensure that' he ings, a nd recommend ch anges out of the house, but not be- sch ool w ill S':1PP?r and a bide The last s age w ill be r atlifif h bl by the cori;;btution , lest 'he cation of th e final draft a, a nre s e urts out some of t h e t , I h f h l I Th -. .business.. t o undle Gavin. 1.as years genera a pa y o w o e by th e sch oo . i~ . f " II ,the school towards the coun- process is expected lio occu py H a rd presse d , Lenme Ina y . .. .. d U G c11 be rep eated . I n order to do h e rest of t he term . con f esses a 11 an nc1e a- >''"'.."'·--_........_.........,,,.......,...,.,,......,......,.,........_ ........_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.._.........,*"'.....,, vin, touched by this honesty, d eparts, leaving a chequ.e for I two hundred dollars.

T he 'Lictor' Staff .,;hould like t<> express its appreWhile Le nnie and Rupert, ciation to the many people who contributed to the su,ccesS a nd Virgie are celebrating, of t his Christmas issue. Spec ial thanks are due to Mr. Myrtle comes on i1aying that Leila, Mr. R. Smith and Mrs. D'Anjo1l nf the 'Guiana Graher mother, a noted " tantaria" phic· nnd Mr. Permaul of 'New Guiana', Printers for their un stirit.ed a!:sista11ce. was demanding half of the ,......-.................- ........................,........,..,...,.........,_,.........,_,.....,._,.....,.....,........,..,.,.._.,.,.._........._..............

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Mr. Sue-Wah-Sing is the ninth of our masters :his term. From Berbice High School. he went i'n 1962 to the u.w.r., and ha3 returned Mr. L. L. Rai at ~-ended the Univer,ity Choral Group) . with a B:Sc. (General) degree Queen's from 1940-48, then He was also Secretary of the in Chemistry, Bo any, and ~tuclied in India, first at he Modern Languages ·Society.

Patua Science College, and then at ' he Madras Fore,t College.

From these tWIO colleges he received a degree m Physics and Ch€mistry and a certificate in Forestry, respectively.

In 1952 he oec~;me emplO) •ed. at the Miniitry of Agriculture and remained there for 13 years.

D,•rin <; this time, (1959) he received a B.A. (General) from the University of London in Pure Maths, Applied Ma I hs, and French.

Once a member of Raleigh, Zoology. He is an enth usiasand then 'Neston House. Mr. tic player of volleyball and Rai represented Q.C. twice in basketball. and it' is expected cricket compe itioP,. He was that he will take a hand in alrn very successful in India our volleyball ac, ivities. H" in debating, and was Cbess hs teach'ing Chemti ,try and champion for two years a11 the Biology and is AssiGtan Madra,- Forest College. Now in our House Master of Woolley that he has returned, Mr. Rai House.

Nine New Masters

This year there are nine of Durham in England. He attended Q.C. from 1958 new masters. They are :J 960. during which time he Mr. R. A. Bacchus, who has wa.· a member of "2'' House Now that h e is back at graduated from the U.W.I. with a B ,Sc. General in Maths Queen's he is Assi,-tant House c1nd Physics, attlended St. Mas''cr of ''D" Hou,·e. Mr., s~ani Jaus College up to 1954. Mattai says that he likes He studied at university from ',eaching h~re and so it is l 961-1964. He is Assis tant possib!c 1hat he will remain House MasHer of ''K" Hou;;e. her,. for · ome ':ime to come.

It is probable that he will remain teaching here.

Mr. A. Mnired i~ ~n old boy and ho 1ds R B Sc. General Mr. M. M. Drepaul is dePTee in Maths and Physics an old boy af Queen's from th" U.W.I. He wa,~ a having attended this school member of "F '' House during from 1955-1962. He holds a his time here (1948-56) and B.A. Special Honours degree was Deputy Head of House. in English from the U.W.I. Thj;, is not surprising, since

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he has always been interested in he literary side of college and university affairs while at Q.C. he was once Features Editor of the Lictor and A , sistant Magazine Editor; he also produced a play for tlhe 1961 Drama Festival At university he was Editor of one of the newspapers and a member of the Literary Society ,there.

F'ormerly a member of ·' E'' House, he is now A;:;sist;. ant House Master of Nobbs and is assi,ting in the Dramatic Society. He. too maY be with us for some time.

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Whil<' gaining ten , m~. terr,. long years of teaching here we have lo-t S<'ven, and Miss Mr. C. E. Denbow, last year's Akai is on leave until J an- Guiana Scholar. has ief t to uary. Mr. P. Thomp-on. a ·ake up his r1udies ovar. ,,"' · V.S.O.. has left. now that after teaching at Queen's for his 11wo·year -ervic period is one year. Lastly. Mr. B . J\ over. Mr. J. L. A. B rotherson Eyre, who taught History and is now employed at the Min- English for many years hen~ istry of Economic Affairs, and i,: now teaching in Canada.

Mr. King has b~n seconded We say farewell, o iihese ma,to the same Ministry. ters who have rendered us Mr. W. Mc Donald is now their services and we wel'tf"achirig a 1he Teacher/ come the new masten in the Traininf! College and Mr. C. hope that they will have l'1 Mr. G. A. Sankies is also an I. Drayton has retired af'ter frui tful fl ay here. old boy of Q.C. being in "G" House while he wa,- here. Besides being an Honours graduate in History from the U.W.J .. he is quite an athlete, for he has the Blue Beltl in Judo, and was once our under l 5 athletic champion .He i ~ also a good sin'!er. He feels that we are not as good at games as we were before, and NUGGET BRACELETS & NECKLACES , tha1, coaches for each game are needed. Mr. Sankies h at NUGGET CHARM BRACELETS nresent Assistant H o u s ·e

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He is now Assi ~tan House Master of If.. ·~··.' .' •'}"' > 8'!1 ''A'' House and i; helping in d;; ... "' ·,t:....,lztiz'SP;LJ&./ ..'. our cricket. Mi. M a j e e d is eaching Maths and Gentt>aches Physics. eral Sci ence as well as superMr. A. Persico attended vis:ng the Ches; Club. So far.

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Mr. N . G. Sinclair, an old boy of Queen'.3 College, who holds a B.A. Honours Degree in French from the U.W.I. entered Quf'en·s from Central High School in 1959.

After spending two years here, he entered the u.c.w.r., where he studied French and as a ,,:;ubsidiary, Spanish.

He spent one year in France and at\le ndcd lectures at the Sorbonne (France's foremost 11niversity) and taught English at a <=econdary school in suburban Paris. His main extra--curricular activitties at the u.c.w.r. were football and singing. (he was a member of

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Apathy in extra curricular activities

The D ecline of Interest in. this, they drift away from the joining societies. This view is, tor ~xtra 1..ur ricular activities. ar,e intended for lt:,he boys' a nd Importance of Clubs, society and only return when of course, quite erroneous. 1 notice Ghat' this is the gen,eral benefit. If in societies like the Sports and Other Extra-Curri- they want another pen-pal.

Apart from providing a lot of attitude of boys as they be- Tour Club and the Sc~ce cular Activiti~ at Q.C. It is my opinion that there enjoyment, societies can be of come ol~r. 1 see no way of Society new members are difis a general selfish attitude in great benefit to them - in de- correcting this short of forcinv ficult to find, it is clear that DOW M.J. the school a nd as a result of bating, for examp.le. Pa.¢ici- boys to take part in some boys hav,e deliberately dec1dI this the standard of games and pation in extra curricular acti- school activity; i.e. by making ed to stay away as these are For the past two ot three e xtra-curricular activities has vities can also be useful to a extra curricular activiti,es com- the two societies which will years there has been a very d ropped considerably over student after he leaves school pulsory. But this would not b,e most ap~al to boys in the Upnoticeable and disappointing the past three or four years. and ,especially at university.Ap- very good, as these activities per School. decline in interest paid by As I see it the ,only way to plicants for admission to uni- - - - - - -- - - - - -- - - - -- - -- - -- - - Queen's College students to con ect tlus is to ge t a hold on versity are required to be able their school societies. 1 think ourselves and change the lack- to mix with other people, and that the reason for this is a adaisical attitude we have de- if they have taken part in no l~,t;~"t,. " iJ. general decrease of the tradi- veloped to extra-curricular extra curricular activities at " ~• tional school spirit. ac tivities, which are an integ- school, it is assumed t~t they The sociebes at Queen's rail part of a full college edu- cannot do so.

To remedy this, societies na.v,e been formed to suit the cation.

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GLASHEEN have to make themsdlves much taste and fancies of every posThere definitely is a decline more attractive to prospective sible type of person. It is surinterest can be pnsmg to find out that in and lack of interest in extra- members spit.e of this there are boys who <'11rricular activities in i:ren eral aroused by the holding of oomhave been students in Queen· s and some school societies in petitions or tournaments in, for example, the Chess Club.

C ollege for the past six years particular.

The first draw-back is, of But then the Exec·utive of the and are yet to take some active interest in on.e of these course, lac.k of organisation in Society might be so busy ormost beneficial groups. With some societies. There are a ganising this that there would societies catering for debaters, few spheres of activity in the be no attention paid to the photographers, historians, ad- school which are well-orga- new comer in the society. venturers and scient ists to nised, tor example games, and CAMBRIDGE C. na me a few o f the more pro- therefore attract much interi think that there is a demine nt ones - I see no reason est. But in some societies moet why each of the six-hundired or all of the work is left on cline in interest paid t;o extra odcl students at Queen's Col- the shouMers of the ·excutive. curricular activities in the upThe difference here is that per part of the school, partile~e should not be a member of at least one society. This is in the games everything is or- cularly in the fifth and sixth a disgraceful state of affairs ganised for the boys. They forms. In the lower part of the - to say the least Rnd it have nothing to do but enjoy school, most of the boys take On the other part in some sort of extra-curc:hnu ld bf" correctf"d wit hout themselves. hand, for a society to be a ricular activity, even though it' 1 dt>l~v .

What has happiened to the success, each member should may only be games. In any J unior De bating Society ?This take an active interest in the case, there is not much scope if this is for the junior boys of the society has been passing society's affairs through a period of dormancy not done the society will school where extra curricular · The youngest 'boy in Q.C. layin g t he w reat h in mem· and is now nearly non-func- flounder, as has happened in activity is concerned. They have no societies which they ort o.f Q.C. boy~, who gav e thei-r li?Jes du.ring the Great tiona l. One of the most im- several cases.

Wa rs, w hile Headboy and Deputy look on.

The societies which are can caH their own except, mayportant societies in the school is now \,\Seless and no longeT most popular m the school are p)ays its part in grooming those trom which boys can oblads t o express themselves. as tain material benefits. The they will surely find it neces- ideal example of this is the sary to do sometime in their Tour Club. Societies like the Th e past wo or three years er had to do Spanish , an d 1 ustorlcat .:::>ocl.ety or the Literlat er lives. have seen many changes at: could either 'drop ' or retain You tmd tlus same lack of ary and Debating Society canQueen 's College which have it on en tering the Fourth interest 1n the present House not compete with the Tour been made to suit• changing F orm. In t he Fourths, fo u r ~ rlcket Compe tition.

Of Club unless they are made Maths, English. conditions. Accordingly, ·' h e subjects c ourse, a whole house cannot much more interesting, and Headmaster announced a t the History, a nd Geography be included in a cricket eleven, this can only come about if beginning of this term, that rre compulsory, a nd one of our form ystem would under- ~h e otlher four must be a but the least the non-players members join fully in the ac'{o two si({nHicant changes this foreign language, and one a can do is to support the house. tivities of the society. 1n the y ear. These a re the enlarge- Sci ence ~ubject.

But at house mate~ onl~ a first place, no one is willing to C. D. CAMBRIDGE accept re. s ponsibility . if he men t of the First Form to infe w dedicated boys tum up to knows that he will have to clude Form I D , so that we suppoft their team. the riest of With th "e c'1anges. boys be, the Junior Debating Socie- now have Forms I A , I B, I , C, ~ive up some of his time and, have un il t hey enter the the spectators being a hard ty. Jn the socie~ to which and I D; and 1/he abolition of Sixi h 'to ioin either the Clascore of cricket enthusiasts, in addition to this, members they do belong, the junior boys he de-,i(!'nations "Claitlical ," sical or Modern stream. Thus, do not appreciate it if somewho are always there, irrespecare so over-shadow,ed by the "General," and "Modern' ' In fo r example, if a s tudent i • tive of the houses playing. t h;nr.:- is bei.n g d o, e for them, senior boys that they can t'ake ~he fifths ta.l en:· ed in Science as well as Boys think that if theY. have and do not even co-operate.

The Studen t Council h a s no active part in the activiti,,s in Arts (to a lesser extent\) he nol been chosen to represent been trying to get new boys of the aociety, The addition of a 'D' form i:; can secure his Ordinary L evel thcir house they can do nowith Cf"1•titicate,< 'in fo.r example As boys progress up the inteded t o c o p e interested in some school a~thing, forgetting that thieir tivity before they decide fo school, ge1*rally they seem to the increasing number of Phi\r<:";i<!s, Chemistry, Biology house also needs moral suptie themselves down to their take less and less interest in n ew boy s, perhaps ' his will ;=-nd Ma h s. as w ell as in L a ti n port. books. Some boys think that extra curricular activities. They subsequently b e introduce d li'rpn ch . Spanish . and Hisfb ry. into the higher forms.

Then he can enter the Lower If a student has decided extracurricular activities are think that it is time to settle f;i x th Modern. A-,, a r esult h e that he is not going to join of no use bo them and that down to "serious study" and w ilJ have stud!ed a WIider time by that they no longer hav~ time But 'lhe change in the F ifth ran~e of subj ect s u p to th e .my society. it will usually be they only waste their~~=:-:--=~--::~==-----'-----:~-,--forms is the culmina ' ion of a Ord inary L evel S'.' a ndar d. difficult to persuade him 1>o trend which began in S epchange his mind. But foy those tember 1964, with the intenwho have joined societies more Th ;s system is far different tion of giving s11udents a b e should be done to attract and from the day,, w hen therl" ter opportunity to choose hold their in~rest. Of c ourse, w ere L ower Fou rth Classica l, the.ir ~ubjeo~, a nd tc, avoid if members -of societies take classing less brilliant boys as GPn nal ::ind Modern form, no active part in the affairs ''General" student,. This w 1;1s and then Uppe r F ourth Classiof the societies, leaving the introduced last year int o the cal. Gener al , and Moo.em . B ut executive to d o everything, Third a nd Fourth forms, an d as ti m e pa sse s, th ere w ill be the society ca nnot be interestas a result there was less l:'ven more changes flo con ing in any case. However, in chance of the., e b oys b eing form with this p attem . the Pen Pal's Club for examforced to 'drop' subJectis which ple, the society can widen its If t h ey work succe ssfully , they disliked and to do those programme to include the colwhich th ey liked.

At th e the school w ill b e n o le , s lectin~ of post-cards or same time. t h e y ha d to man agea ble, and b et·er or 11tRmos. At present, aH the do the prescribed number rra nised b y t he tdme it r eaches members of this society are of subjects (8) and w er e i'.s capacity of 750 or thereallowed to idle aw a y abou ts than it was when the interested in is acquiring a p en· '-·argument in the conidor., not Two .intellectuals in heated1 free-periods. All Third form- number of stude n t5 was le.. s. p all. When they have done

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L'ic tor Literary :Competition 1rIHIIE

, The "Lictor" sponsored a Literary Competition this term to promote literary activities and encourage young writers. Th e n um'ber of entries was fairly great, but somewhat smaller than expected.

Tn this issue, the "Lictor" publishes the winning entries in this competition. The j11 d ~es, \fr. N. A. Robinson (Junior) and Miss Loncke (Senior) declared that they found tl;ie entries 'most interesting'. The winning entries are as follows: ,

SHORT STORY: -:run ior Secti0n - ''Old Joe"

by G. E. D . H . Mc Allis tler .

Senior Seo ion - ''The Political Meeting" hy C. R am barrat. "A very lively piece of writin g, spiced with a sense of humou r which makes it enjoyable reading.''

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drinking with ever y man I. cfin Annandale but now have A stone sailed towards Dal· chartd',, head bu t he ducked and instead it struck L alljee, who was com ing out of the :shop laden with gallon bottles of rurp., ori the nose. Lalljee instinctively dropped t he rum an d gr appled his split, bleeding nose. The bottles crashed on t he concrete floor, and their precious con ents flowed away. E ggs and bricks flew from all directions onto the ,'1!1age , closely followed by curses. Dalchand and Lalljee s ou ght re',f1; 1ge beiliind the clos_ed door of the shop. By i'lCC!den,· a stone struck, the fluorescen t lamp and it burst with a loud bang.

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C. RAMBARAT but was specialJy thrilled ·o be given an opportunity to preside over one. He had carefully prepared a lenghty speech with many long_, emphati<;_ words ' o impress both the audience and Dalchand. He had practised for days bef'o,re his mirror ar,d had learnt every sy llable by heart. What was more, he had alway ·· wanted to be a successful public speaker buti the oppor' unity never came. With this ,thought in mind. he strode manfully on the shop bridge H,s appearance was gree1'ed with heckle, and cat-calls. Tc these he merely smiled back By nc-w. tension had gripped him . He approached the ''mike" with fear and a hollow sensation in his stomach He had never spoken .' hrough a public address .• ystem befo r e· and he always felt a tinge of excitement when he 1ihough:' of it. He fel t his knees grow weak, his eyelids were quivering and this made s.ight difficult. He felt his ve·,t sticking onto his back and this )'.llade him much more uncom· for11able . What w as more. he. sensed the feeling of hostility towards him, in I he air. He wo,, sorry he had ever accepted Dalchand's invitat10n ,'o chair the meeting. He knew tha'· violence would eventual· ly end it. '

"Fri ends, Guyanese, countryme:1," he shouted, ''v,e are gathered here to listen , o the pleadings of your ser vant I •clchand. I ask you bo suppor r me, to ,-.upport a man of po· r ential. Guyana need"' a m aP o.J integrity, a man of social standing and last but not least, a man who has lived in the same society as youn, a man who ha,s borne the troubles of the world like you, a man who enjoys the same privileges as you do.

Fo.r these rea, ons I recommend to y ou your humb;e servant, Dalchand .. .''

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The light flickered, blinked audience roared with laugh' er to subdue i< , an d smiled, wipand fina1Jy went on . .The shop Somewhere, ,s omeone made a ing away the mess f'rom hi, bridge was immediately im· nasty wisecrack and this fa ce w ith his handker chief mersed in the pale, white rays cau. ed addi1<ional amusemem. Ano,lher egR flew through the from the four foot flumes- "Friends, we are gathered air and t ook h im on th e ches• . cent light . Some men were here to hear Mr. Dalcha nd staining h is spotless teryle ne POETRY: fetching a rostrum from speak. His ~ather, Pand'1 shirt. Hi~ temper had no w Junior Section - "Awake ,t h e shop, t heir backs Oudit Narine Maraj, 1s w ell b urs (! iJ s bonds an d his fu ll 0 Lads" by G . E . D. Mc Al· bent under its weight. known to all of you. Without fury fell on t h e aug1ence:lister. , Tbey let it fall with a bang further ado, I present to you, Senior Seo ion "The Cry" and ,viped the perspiration Pandit Oudit . . . t mean Mr.

by Brian Chan , whose "skilfrom · their flushed faces Dalchand. ful and sensitive use of lanSomewhere from ' he crowd guage to create and ~ustain outside' someone shouted an Lalljee was soaking wet. m ood is ind eed remarkable.'' obscenity at tl~em. Dalchand. He could tee] beads of pers· , the main speaker flhat even- piratioh trickling dow n hi , 'Oh Lawd , Dalchan d shootin ' ing, b:ough _' out a micrpphone legs, tickling them. Hh fa(;e w e. ' shouted som ebody. · and fitted 1t n ext to tihe ros· was drenched. his s hir t s tu ck trum , and a large toy car · uncomfor~ably , o his back This added panic to pande, I (which was Dalchand's sym- and his clenched fists were mon ;um.

Everyone started HA/vf/LTP/V bol) Aga~n someone ~hou':ed dripping. He gratefully left hus lin g a way fr om the scene an msult ~allmg ?n Dalchand the rostrum, picked hi., way of. 1:~~ m eetin g w hile .•ome ~~~ to start his meetmb . By now gin crerlv to the back of h e nu sch1evo us urchin s t hrew t h e rostr um into a nearby gut' he crowd had grown a bit sho~ bridge and sat deiectedl y and Dalchand was indeed into a straight-backed chair . ter 2nd one ran off w ith the "Eggs won't hurt m e but a ca'.. Inside t he shop, everypleased and ~1hr illed to see s o He was & ill smartin g think· was . comparatively many 'patriots'. What puzzled incr what a comica}. fi gure he bad G overnm ent, s uch a-s- the th1.n g For exclusive designs him was the presence of a h;d cut before nhe un appre- )) re sent one, will .'; ee you all q~.u et. -:- L all.J ee was feeling in I h e dung h eap. A f :ier a ll · h ;s mJured nose with his couple of old , gr ey donkeyE ciative audience.

For distinctive styling and a few grunting pigs. my fa ther had done for you. r ight h ;md w hile Dalchand Dalchand appro11ched tqe this is the w ay Y?u greet 1'.1e, ~as so bbing quietly , h is wor For matchless quality The chairman for · hat meet- 'mike' a midst a spat ter of you ungrateful b1tches,-w1th ned head in t he palms of his ing was Ernest Lalljee. He hand clappinit. wild heckl ing ,eggs and boos. I had though ' hands. ' was ill-versed m the parti- and ca' -calls . He wa"" smiling culars for chair ing a meeting and appeared unper turbedbu t dPf' D dow n. doubts were already forming. \ 0

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Ai' this point, a donkey started to bray, followed by another and the large crowd became helpless with laughter From the back came signs o-F disorder. and someone g arted hi , own public meeting, denouncing Dalchand. He could sense the crowd's hostilit y but continued manfully.

''I promi~e y ou, if I am elected in the Legisla1' ive A ~sembly, I will t~ m y best 1 o save y ou from the pinnacle of the Government."

T:e::E You ; .tink and you know that y ou stink: Every step , every spil', every savage drink Ts in defiance of the habitudes of sobre blue and pink And no'!-as-pink people and him. You mu, t shock. You W t}} ink , Or scr,atch 1.mspoken words on everv wall (The unspoken words you blatantly bawl) , Dig in the natl and scrawl Yourself acro·,s living; splinter every ]ink Wi 1ih ot.her men which never think Bu t only stand about and shape their lips and blink Ferociously at one another ferociously at not,hing at all: · All on th e sicksweet brink Of heaven, all waiting for · their call From the Great Worm God into whom they un · know ing fall.

"God,'' y ou cry, ''rt,e out of your snake pit , And sfret_ch yourself, display your pnde T o I hose who blinking see only t he rainbow Over t he hole ! I spib In their eye and thus in yours : y ou cannot hide From me. I see the black 1 Refle cted in the cheating rainbow. Go back T o you ? 0 give me Hell and hea ti and th e red instead.

I will not r ot, God, under you ; I will not rot with the dead.

I will burn not crumble with th e bawling bad: J want to know tihe painful dea th of melting lead.

A nd hope the fiercest fire will be bls zing at my head !"

Only I h a ve heard you sinner, and I brin.iz you bi!iter news to hear " " cl bitter tears to shed. Goel Cannot feel. How can he now?

This W as i' he noblest blinker of ilh em all Canno t feel. Your interpretation was vomited · In honesty. But y ou shou eel out .

Against a thin tiall cross in A desert; you puked into an Already foul pit of a rotJ ing worm.

There is not1 a difference, there is not a choice ; And although I hear your voice Revolt, I bring you bitter t ears ~o shed, I bring you news that God is dead.

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L et's hope its gran deiirs would _forever stay In o~t1' village where we 'play on day s

His emphasis on "pinnacles" wa,s unheard. The crowd was g~<'ting unruly by now. ''I will always remember Annandale and its respectia.ble re,,idents. I have rum in the casks and it is all for you. This will show how much I t h ink of you."

T hat are illuminat ed by the sun's rays. i

How long wilt t hou lie in thy bed and sleep? ,. The stooges have beg1m the _street t o sw eep.

The m il k -m an has fi nished his cha-res and mo-re,

DON'T JUGGLE WITH THE COMPLlCATIONS OF The crowd s<tar ted >' o cheer YOUR BUSINESSand Dalchand. smiling broadly, mot1ioned to Lalljee t o Toclav's business executive ls supposer! t o be efficiency plus bring out the rum. Suddenly luckily he is nut expected to a thiev-c this status single an egg was throw n from i'be handed . He is expected to employ efficient help • • . and crowd to Dalchand and it efficient office e quipment and here is whe re we come in. caught him squarely in the face. 111 was a rotten egg. ] '·: Call: awful smell shocked him and he felt himself de"Friends,'' he squeaked into veloping n a u s e a.

He Ma in Street.

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The bread-boy has brou ght his goods to m y door . llifr. Jo nes has gone out wit h his cow s and calv es, · The wood has been cut into more than hah,es.

Y our daddy has' gone to a hard d.ay 's w ork Y onr Aimt has left w ith t h~ plane for York.

But t here comes a time when m en must r est ' T hose who t hrough t he day have done their best.

S o until then, arise and stir 0 m.y brav e lads! arise and stir.

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Against the vermi:lion back- like brick ! Man even me dag 1 out of the poor u:ider-fed ground resulting 'from the wuh is a bitch wuhn di.sgrace J child. He felt his heart bea• fading sun-light,, were sil· heself by eatling dis ting;· 1 faster ; he felt his body grow houe1:ted two ~olitary figures concluded Joyce, all the .- irne tense; then as he heard the - one in hot pursuil: and the spasmodically gesticula<ting. boy's foot-SI' eps; his face grew other being pursued.

Scarcely had the words left pale, his fist turned whit e, hi, Joe, on discovering that two ~er ' mouth th8:n she saw the long hair stood -o n edge; h e plan t•ains were mi-ssing from httl~ boy ru1:mng helter skel- was now ready for the spring th e bunch he had managed to ter In her direchon. A grin Then suddenly he remember steal from the market, dis· played on the edge,, of her ed that he was being pursued played great disgust, in te r mouth _a~ s!'ie realised what He looked back juSI in t,i m e mingled wi .!) anger. Fortu· was w~1tmg for the boy when to s~e the policeman round nately, a , he raised his head . he arrived home hf e. She w a s the bend about a h1.mdred he observed the fleeing fig· still. gazing after him when yards off. Quickly, thou ith t ure of a meagre looking boy ·S uddenly she heard a heavy 1ecsly, Joe bolted from behina.

Joe had worked ha.rd to brin r pattering of foot-steps behind 11he car and collided head on off t:he theft o-f thos~ plan' her. She looked around star- in/' o the boy. For a moment ' ains, so when he saw t h · ' led, just to come face to face thev rumbled tumbled furn obv ious suspect, it was wit' with Unc\e Joe. But before bled. then the't,oy !"'ot u~ firs i; great EnthusiaJm 1,hat he she had time to move out of ·and made good his escape clenched his fist and offered his way, one of his flapping About thir: y seconds later pursuit. hips struck her with all :ii's Uncle Joe managed to gath er Despite the irregu lar pro force and as a result, not only himself togei;her iust in time portions of his ana'omy, he her food lay on the ground in · o lock up -in o J1e cold eves posses ed an amazing amoun t a heap. but she herself. It of a well-bwlt, man in police of agilitx: and on I his occa· would have been simply won- uniform.

"Collect your, e]f buddy'· sion was not slow in reveal - der ful I o see how this woman in.g it. With breast1.-a-flapping suddenly cherished t he food said the calm firm voice.

"Is rlis bye dat stole m e hips a-wagging, and abdomen she had been cr iticising only plantain," retorted Uncle Jo a a-heaving, he supplied great a moment ago.

By now, Uncle Joe h avinp "Which boy ?" amu::ement as he gingered ''Look him - Eh, eh is weh behi)'ld his foe.

After ,t wo lost sight of the boy, stopped minutes had elapsed, faint 10 catch his breath. He rested de rascal gone ?''

All •' hose tfuat knew decided signs of frustration were be- for a little while, then lookinr _g inning to appear on Joe's back, observed that the wo- to keep quiet because t h ev face ; but the more obvious man whose baskets he had knew that the t wo plani:ains these became, the more his des, rayed, was running wit}, would be i' he ma in nart of the a policeman to him. Joe ha d weekly substan11ia l meal fo r detennination grew.

At last Joe seemed to be no alternative but to run himself, moth er and fou r sisgaining on his opponent whl' faster r hail the policeman ters.

A despised Uncl e Joe le ft had just begun to enjoy the This he found to be far fro m fun . The.n wher, 'h e ws r hard, for by now a few poundf the scene, after he h ad be en ·w ithin one foot's dis11ance of of his fat had melted away charged with his h ead bowed .' he boy, he made one trem"n and he had begun to show a shower of tears fa llin f( fro m dous leap towards him, but, signs of being a prom1smg his ey es as he recall_e d i ib. e unfortunately, it hapnened t ( athlete. Shadows of darknesE mis-fortunes that had befell be a mis-average. However had stolen across the sky and him. Then out of the blue he so eager was JoE: to make an- now the real man in Joe was remembered that he had Ief' other leap, !' hat instead of beginning to show. It: was i\he rest of the bunch of planwaiting unid) he landed, h<> now ample time for Joe to tains at th~ marke>'. Realising decided to jump again whilst make use of the alleys he was that there was no time to lose, he darted back tb the h.e was still in mid-air. The accul:'1omed to.

Uncle Joe wa.s just begin· cene with all speed. , But result of thh was quir e credi t able; for despit e his encum · ning to lose keenness when alas ! the bc;y had decided to brances, he brought off a he saw tJhe little boy run- take hom e a l&r ,ge r emfor cespeed to- ment. prodigious achievement whic;'.' ning at full wards him.

Quickly he was:- to be the first humar

By Godfrev E. D . H. rockel'" to crash-land, not in a darted behind a car. As he Mc Allister. waited, he thought .·of how fores·!\, Or' in an ocean, but if' Form 3 C. he would beat the daylights a heap of frail lookirlg baske~a, which were -o wned by one c,f the few remaining ven- IMPRESSIONS OF dors. Despi, e the fact that he was now being accommodated M ®o /A\ (("I TI« T(j) TQ') © IT 'iT ~ ll ll byamaterialwhichwassoft, l.W ~~ll~ ~~Jr-" Lb:1l.!JJ~ compared with his concrete The first time I saw Black stood many of the mind-teasmattress, he go' un almost Orphe11s, I was expecting to ing symbols and juxtaposition as soon as he landed. s e e a brilliant fi 1 m , which the photogr aphy poses will hav~ you !~eked up''. having read of its crHi- (perhaps I am still trying too wa1led the woman m sorrow: cal success, i t s Cannes and on seeing Joe hake; off at , Grand Prix. and its Academy a tremendous pace, decided to Award; I was disappointed. I join ,· he race. found it only mildly interestA little way c,ff, stood Joyce ing - (I even yawned a bit) , and Gertrude, 11he gaffers. but rem ember noting some''Ay child, is wuh you tink, where r ather vaguely that it bout de talks dey aving in was "a t ruly brilliant film' '.

Landon ? "a sked Joy ce in c Wh at I was most fascinarted matter of fact manner. by, was the way the myth I ''Well well, well, i ti seem as was modernised, and I was if we gettin we independence particularly pleased to find aft er all. Fuh tink dat w "' that I could recognise, for aint guhn goh fuh depend, instance, that the descent by pun dem wuttless man no mo! Orpheus (of the film) .down B.CHAN ''Bu1l de ting dat got me exag· th e spiral staircase symbo- hard) , but what this film now gerated is the clap ah we diF l-ised the descent into Hades has to give me is a sense of Premier ge· ! look how dem by the Orpheus oif the myth. the happinesses, tragedies people bow down fuh he Some months later, I won- and behaviour of ordinary chile !" added Joyce energeti- dered whether critics, for people. That is all: I w:m caliy. once, had p aid too much a:t- never see this film again but "Well is sub when yuh deh tention to its novelty and not for this whi<:h it can offer high." , enough to the way it was (and perhaps for some beau1 ''By the way," asked Joyce handled. Recently, I saw the tiful but artificial scenery of "Wuh happen to de food I film again and this t ime was the otherw ise slightly rough deh ask you tlO prepare fuh det ermined to scan i-t r a ther photography). However, I meh ?" . · j cynically. I was surprised to must point out certain merits ''Don't frighten chile, ati find t h at the film was not the of the film for t he sake of tl 1e go' um hey fuh yuh good and one I had yawned at months prospective viewer. 1 propua." · before, but a ~ew, exciting exThe actors all have beauti''Man bul dis food you got penence, which, hke a poem fully controlled . facial exhey got ' oo much salt an too could 'communicate before it pression which hides any lil · bit peas ; an w'Uh is wus is understood'.

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G-overnment Educ~tion Policy Go\'.ernment's Educa·tiona1 Policy will not be affected bv the granting of Indepemlenoe.

This has a1ready been planned for in the country's s.even-year Development programme and it is now being implemented.

Government intends to place more emphasis on Teehnical EducaU:on. Too many people think tha~ they are too good for this kind of job and tha( only 'white-collar' jcbs will do for them. This is the case wUh Queen's College Students. The Government would

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a master solely for games and we in tend to provide one, but this may take a :fi~tle time, as there are priorities to be att,ended to.

Diploma courses in technical johs wil1 be introducednoit r.n wood-work, which seems to be the only t,echnicalt job that boys are at present taught -r bu,t in things like pottery and basket-weav· ing.

At present in Brit,ish Gu:ana is Mr. Hough~on. attached to the Ministry of Overseas Development in Britain, who is here to advise ~ Ministry of Education on the setting up of these courses. Volun1~ers wm be coming to British Guiana during the long summer vacation to help.

Another ph1·ase of educa·' ion to which attention has to be pa :d is teacher training.

Only twenty-six per cent of the teachers in schools are a t present t rained, and this includes all levels - even degre;es who

are ti n the teaching profession .

The Government intends to introduce in the University of Guiana, Diploma Courses in Education for graduates who would like to enter ~he Teachin,.,. Profession.

Government also intends to promote physical education in all schools. We recognise tha~ a school the size of Queen's College should !'lave

year. Unfortunately, this maY. benefit only a few Queen's Co1lege students if any at all - as most of these scholar ~hips ,are in fields which havd been neglea'.ed in the past, things Ji:ke Forestry, Geology Mining, etc. There are places for about, forty-five veterin ;\ry surgeons in the country but no llained people to fill these places. Most Queen' f'olle~e students who go awa) to study enter the 'fashion' fields. like medicine. engineering, ~tc.

uh-professional jobs, and they wi11 be able 1,o ob '. ain training l:n things like laboratory

technicians,

surveyors

etc. There is also a wide open J1:eld for commercial artists in Bri~ish Gt,iana. Cards for all occasions are imported ~ by the thousands t nto British Guiana each y ear - quite unnecessarily - for they can be produced right here.

... That Balance once told a fifth former "B-B-Boy, teachin' you m-m-maths is like telling a ha•r _ra isin , story to a bald headed man."

ll(JOR LITERARY COMPETITION

Q.C. Lictor is sponsorillg another competition winning entries of which will he published in th~ next is<;ue.

The ~e1,cral ruies of lhe cornpetition are:

l. The topic is "Guyanese Identity".

2. Articles must not be longer than 1,500 words.

3. ~\rticles must not have been published before elsewhere.

Black Orpheus

4. There are two sections: Junior Section for

(Continue d from Page 7) students in Forms I - IV. Senior Sections film (which, by the way, is I for th e rest of the student-body. better done than that of many other foreign films) 5. Entries should be submitted to the Editor on and makes the characters or before February 10th, l !=ln6. universal. Raw and delightfully primitive zest is radi- 1 ated alongside the sadness of 6. Articles should be type-written if possible. the lovers' story, while carnival drums beat, Euridice is 7. There are two prizes for each section chased to her death. - The Junior Section: 1st Prize - $5.00; 2nd Priz~ s~enes of Orpheus and Eury$3.00. Senior Se.ction: 1st Prize - $10 00· dice together move away 2nd Prize $5.00. · ' from the sentimental to the poetic: the violins do not These prizec; rnav take the form of book sigh as there is a close-up of Construction will be started two hands communing: you · tokens. ,,.,. ,., ,., wi.,'. hin the next y ear or so on simply see two black smooth the building which will house beaut:ifol · hands.

In fact. the Univern:ty of Guiana and there are no Hollywood viothen Q . C. students will have lins intruding ·in any of the t heir building all t o them- scenes. Marcel Lamus, its diselves. rector, lets an undecorated Our achievements at the from 1963, when we won year , Government scream or fall-to-,death pro- Ordinary Level exam:, in neither of · he two. The la"t L ast aw arded tlfrty-nine scholar- vide its own impression. And, June were fairly good. At he time we go,t both was in 1962 ships in different fields of the total impression is one of Advanced Level. they ~ere Not on,ly the boys h O good. We gamed w wo:1 s' udy. These were condtt,onal freshness and natural beauty, extremely , . . these honours for Queen· ; scholarships, requiring the and that the picture has been both Gui~na Scholars hipc but also their industrious holders of these scholarships an extremely successful ex- and the highest number of teachers deserve du · e pralS(.'.

You dont cry: distinctions in our his ory. It to return to the country on periment. the completion of their you simply leave the cinema, is nothing new for Queen's to The subjects in which the cout.Ees to, serve for a per·od feeling - let me put it less win both Guiana Scholar- greatest successe-s were maoe ship-;, butt this year's perfor- are Pure Mathematics, Engof time. Government int,ends sophisticatedly - good.

Brian Chan L VIC. mance shows a full recovery lish, French, and Economics, to make a similar award this all of which secured 100 "passe-,.

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... That 'James Bond' was form and shouted: 'Give me seen towing Pussy Galore to your names in Chronological market on his ind1spen,5able order.' 'bertha'. . . . Toa t the leader of the . . . That 1lhe fla, -headed ox-blood bulldog society r-~school barber has set up a cruits detention boys to give makesKift parlour in No. 19 his 'chubs' a push-stfart.

Cloak-Room. . . . That 'Ddllo' looked ... Outside this very same through a windo,w , and silencparlour, 'Dood' was ,c;een wait- ed a painter who was loudly ing in a lin~ for a cut. boast/in~ of his past 'exploits' .

... Toa< a red· headed sixthBalanc,e to a group of boy., former wa ; overheard 'coach- .in a pawnbrokery just befor~ ing' Olive: 'Ah like you more G.C.E. ' "w-w-wait you ain t For those s tudents who are ' ban ah like fowl'- currie'. sit the exam yet and you not good enough to be awardwant to pawn your maths rd scholarslip.s there will be · · · That Nugget entered a books.'' diploma course~ fo r them in ~-................_,.._._,..,,_,..,..,...................,..........................,.,..,........_....._.,..,,..........,.........,...............,,_ __ ,

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more Queen's ·college studen".s enterine- the Technical Inst.itute, especially those boys in the Fifth Form who have just fl'nished their 'O' Level and have left school. These boys. inst:ead of just naturally thinking oif working in some office as a clerk. should 1.hink about acquirina further training in the field of technical jobs in which they think they can do thEf.r best,

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The overall percentage of Advanced Level passes was 68.7. of Ordinary Level pa,;;ses, 62.7.

At the Advanced, there were 153 passes out of 224 papers offered, while at the Ordinary Level we had ~63 pass~., out of 907 papers offered. This shows tlha' our success at the 'O' Level was 5 "ii more than in 1964, and the same as 1n 1963, but well out from the 69% we go.' in 1962, which is 1J)e himhest Ordinary Level percentage we have ever made. However, they are quite good, as the Headmas· er said, for our first try at tlhe University of Lon: :m 'O' Level examination.

Friday, December 3, 1965

THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE UCTOR

Macki nac Demonstration From June 14th to Sepbember 4th last a QC delegation, including Bisram R., F rankln K., and Mohaboob A., NgSee-Quan W ., atbended a Moral Re-Armament Conference held at the Moral ReArmament Assembly Centre, Mackinac Island, Michigan.

Over this period of time, about 8,000 youths attended the Conference. They hailed from fifty-six dlifferenlt countries, speaking fifteen different langua-ges, and the hosts of the conference were the Red fodians of America. The activities of the conference were thus described . " Take the excitement of a political oonvention, add to it the physical exertion of a basic training camp, the beat of a hoobenanny and the urgency of a Summit Conference, and you begin to get an idea of what took place on Mackinac Island ~. the Conference.

To help us achieve our aims, Olympic giold medallist John Sayre and Richard " Kusty" Wailes, West Indies vice-captain of cricket Conrad Hunte, Naval verteran of World War 11! J. Blanton Belk jr., the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Rajmohan Gandhi. Masahide Shibusawa, whose grandfather industrialised Japan; Dame Flora Macleod, Chief of the Scottish Macleod, Oan and othe r suitably qualified per,sona lities gave lectures every morning.

Apart from learning through lectures and seminars, we believed in the saying " A healthy body carries a clean and healthy mind, so there was ~.·

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The aims of those who took part in that demonstration are:-

1• To build homes in which families learn to live together.

2. T O demand schools and colleges which build faith and character as well as brains and skills.

3. To produce films, plays books which give a new purpose to mankind,. .

4. T O chaUenge prorruscuous parents, cynical tleachers watered down religion and polluted politics.

5. To make absolut~ honesty, purity, wuielfishness and love our pe rsonal standards.

6 . To raise a force of young people, more disciplined and revolutionary and more d edicated to building a world that works better than by any Communist, Fascist or other materialist method.

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R. BISRAM a stiff physical fitness pro~ gra~ in which everyone took part. The programme was led by Messrs. John Sayre, " Rusty' ' Wai~ and Conrad Hunte, and thie final session by a team of Danish gymnasts who performed at the World's Fair.

Entertainment was also provided by music shows, films. plays and bar-b-ques. The first show to be pr>oduced was the "Sing-Out '65 '' featuring the Colwelll Brothers, singing stars of Hollywood. This show has made a successful

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tour of Japan and Korea and is now going though universities and high schools in America. The siecond show was the " Herbie Allen Show" featuring ~rbert Allen. one of the best xylophone players in the world. The third show was the "Latin-American, Show'' with the LatinAmerican, Caribbean choru,s.

Most o f the plays performed in the theatre were written

by Peter l-ioward, and two films were made during the conference, , in a television studi,o, which is said to be the best equi:pp,ed in the world. There was a lso a "Show-Boat'' built and manned by the West Indians. 'fhjs Show-Boat, took ~he form of an old Mississippi Riverboat and on the deck, the "Herbie A llen Show" w~ performed.

All in all, the conference held this year has achieved its purpose and aims. Now there are task forces of young and old alike, who hav~ given up ambitions, high-school , college, jobs, inheritances and treasures, to spread this ideo 'l ogy of Moral Re-Armamen throughout the world.

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CHRISTMAS TERM:0pens- 27th September, 1965.

House Cricket Compei ition.

Inter-House Hockey Competi· tion.

Speech Day - 3rd December House PartieS - 17th -,- 20th December.

Closes - 17th December. 1965.

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EAST ER TERM:Opens - 3rd January, 1966.

I w er-H ouse Football Compe· tition.

Inter-House Drama Competitlion .

Inter-H ou~e Debating Com· , peti"ion.

Sports Meeting.

Parents Day. Old Boys' Day, Closes :__ 7th April, 1966.

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AUGUST TERM:Opens - 25th April, 1966.

G. C. E. Examinations.

Closes - 22nd July, 1966.

FOR Ph~ Mr. Rober,· Moore, previou<,ly History master, ,who ~eft here during last! year s Christmas tenr., is now a' Sulil.3ex University, England, where he

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-Why ''Andy" appeals?

The populari y of '' Andy Capp" ha, become world-wid:! because the population of many co mtries has found the way o: life of this indolent rogue, his id,iosyncracies, his fanatical addicffon to liquor, or more prechely, o beer, hi,; inexplicable and strange affectidn for his pigeons, his ever· adoring and indulgent w)fe, Flo', who idolizes him, his evasions of the understanding rent-collector. his periodic

raids on hi., wife's purse and his amusing escapades in the pub-house, analogous with the way of life of their lower cla-:: ses. Each coun'try regards and accepts him as heir very own, while the popularity of other humorous literary characters is restricted to cerain countrie·. A.; c1.n illustration we could look at the cartoon "Blondie and Dagwood'' which only appeais to Americans because it portrays the humorous aspects of American family life, and h i, type of humour is not enjoyed by people who are unfamiliar with American life.

"And" Capp'' is a favourite hr.cause it presents the type of humour which can be appreciated by all classe,>. 1t does no contain the "Playboy Magazine'' type of jokes which have to he reserved for stag parties, or the type w hich i, reserved for a vicar's breakfast table but it offers a pleasant balance between these two extreme,. ·The men of the upper classes fondly imagine hemselve~ as this c;urly lackadaisical and bellig~rent person, and in doing this they gain a temporary freedom from the rigid d emand,, and irksome conventions of aristocratic ~ociety.

On he other h and. the lower classes have rccogn~,ed and accepted him as one of' their kind, and have come to love him as a friend. ''Andy Capp'' appeals to botlb. sexe,, . Men admire the faithfulness of Flo' who seems able to adjus' herself to suit every one of Andy'.s moods. while- won~en Eke the bravado and daring of this diminutive

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beer-drinking hero.

Everything about him is humorous and he cuts a very conic figure in his peaked cap which he never takes off. If he is s,..en in he role of a empe tuous goalkeeper, his cap is en if he is h<>vinP- one of his infrequent baths in his large bath- flub in front of the fire, h~, cap is on, ar.d during his fights his cap never comes off.

If he is shown in bed. he s ill has on his characterii~tic cap, carries the inevitable cigarett"' butt between his lips.

The basic reason for ''Andy Capp's'' popularity is that it po.;sesses sttt'aightforward humour. It does not con ain the type of humour which only intellectuals can appreciat . . and which ]caves lesser folk poker faced.

This is revealed by the following inciden11 :Andy awoke .~creaming in the middle of he night and an-. nounced to Flo' that he had been havin g a nig htmare.

He had dream t tha: he was drinking at the pub wi h Chalkie and the boy~. Wh im

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There is no subtlety in ' his but we evoke humour from Andy's candid admi ssion. Mos of the other jokes depend OY\ the candidness of Andy, who never hide : his feelings but expresses them in a forthri ght manner.

The simplicitv of this ypical 'Andy Capp' joke is su..::1 that a small child can appreciate it while it will still cat,se laughter among adult,. Also this joke would be appreciated in several countries and the ·e reasons accoun'.1 for the crescive populari y of the unpredictable ''A n d y C a p p" whose escapad~, will continue to covulse his followers with laughter.

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TABLE TENNIS House T. T· Competition ~as knocke~ ?ut In the last Inter House competition, there was keen competition among the Houses as each house had some talented players. The tournament proved ! hat the school has many good players, and that they have a future in the game if they con tinue pl aying so w~ll.

Pilgrim House (E) and Moulder House (G) were finalists in the competition, but Pilgrim emerged the winning house by beating Moulder 3-0.

The members of Pilgrim House must be congratulated for their fine performance.

The team consisted of Critchlow (cap~.), Hopkinson (vicecapt.). Benjamin, Fields and Jabour.

JUNIOR CHAMP. In this tournament., Bourne Clarke, B1enmon, Benfield and Plfllips were among the ccm petitors.

Phillips got quite an upset when he was beaten by young Chase in a thrilling match.

Blenmon, a f"irm favourite

by Clarke m the sem1-fmals. . .

Bourne had no opposition from Chase, and therefore won an ea~y match.

In the finals Bct;1rne e~er!!ed the schoo~ s Jumor Champ, after beatJ.ng a very exci' ed Clarke. Clarke ho~hever. played well and wt practice could do much better.

Handicap Tournament There may be many, upsets in this ~ournament, owing t.o the players· lack of practice. There have been mrny entries for this tournament from both n ew and old boys.

How ever judging from the many good players who have entered, many exC..:ting matches will be played.

There a re many favourites t0 win thic; tournament. "Olayers like Walcott, Critchlow, Hookin~-0n , Bourne. Persaud and Clarke. The followl'ng players will have to be watched :Benjamin, Benfield . Moor". Bl~nmon. and youn~ Phillips, who plays VP ry well.

SCHOOL INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP In this tournament most of the school's best senior players, including Denbow, Per!,cUd, Critchlow, Hopkinson, and Benjamin compe,t ed with Pach other. However we missed players like Moore (who did not enter), and rchool captain, Walcott, who was absent on the day of his match against Maxwell.

Persaud put on a finP, uer formance coming back m rinal _game to beat Benjamir and earn a olace in the semi finals. Hopkinson narrow!)~ bea~ Persaud, and entered the finals.

In the other division Critch low beat Denbow in the semi finals and therefore gained a place in the finals. ..

In the finals we saw an attackin,i: H opkinson fall to Critchlow. who was mixing well. Critchlow won 3-0, thus becoming the 1965 Senior Champ.

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Commencing soon will be a:11. In_ter-High School Compe· 1t10n . T earn.; will vie for t:he Frandec Trophy and the Queen', College team 1s training very hard for this competition.

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A century of 139 not out by our school captain R ichard Cambrid~e was th~ highlight 0f the match against St. Stani<:laus College in which the '21..~ en'- College team ma naged to amass 242 runs before declarine. In his innings he displayed all round strokes typical of t h e free-scorin~ batsm:m he is.

In so doin~. he helped his team 'o a first innin!ls win over our arch-rivals who were r~<,tricted to a mere 158 runs due to light bowlin,i: f'rom our

to i;opularise the game in the lower school and among the many boys who do not play in the upper school. l i > hoped that one day 'In1erH?u~e volle--.-ball competition' will become a reality.

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The under-16 division of the school';, football has been doing quite well i'n I he 'Co)dstream Guard' cup competition which commenced some months ago. Thanks to , he excepifonal pea';llormances of Morrison, Johnson, Grant, .Agard and McIntosh who have .ince earned positions in , he school's first XI, they are now placed third in the compeh ion So far they have suffer'ed defeat at , he hands of Malteenoes, and Thomas United. At presen11 the competi ion is

For the first time in 5 years, a Queen's College con- QRC boys who with good

ting,ent made a tour df Trinidad for the purpose of play- positional play were rewardby a three-nil victory. It fog a series of games, which included <:ricket, football ed was a muddy affair and in our and an athletic meeting, against the Queen's Royal College. Funds for the tour were raised bv the succe,5sful school play 'Sch.ool days can he fun', tog~ther with donations from -.;ever:il prominent Q.C. old hoys, the Government and two business firms.

The tour' lasted for thirteen days, beginning on the 4·h of August and termina• ing on the 17th of th e same month The touring pai• y comprised 8 member.~ of the school's first XI cricket team: viz: Cambridge R. (capt) . Robin. to c Morrison A son G ' K ir n , N -A-Q i 'N Khan M Cam~ u Mar rn . d a1e T br1dge C · and the youngest member of the t~uring partY)~- There wei~e six footballJ.er- · Crawford Dul:1met R (capt)· Evans N Nanne K.. Cumberbatch . J., Find Henderso~ K. F'ive llthlete.~. McDav1d I.. F ox A. (capt.) WE>nt J., Arthur R. and Taul A rounded_ off I h e members of the official touri~g party which was !';Upervised by two m ;:i5ters. 'Messr·.

London E.W., and Jonas R Mahesh I., Moore B., and London M, were the unofficial members of the ' our w ho did not participate in any activity

with Cambridge R. and young Ma_rti~dale they did well, restrw mg the ~omesters to 91 runs after they had amassed 141 in their first innings. '!"he secon? match saw Ca~bridge making_ a bree~y 51 _m about equal time while ~irton at the other end rem.amd 1 f . t k" e onger or ~ pams a mg 51 also. It was mdeed . unfortunate tha1 Cambridge was run out. for he seemed all sc e for a century. Once again the tailenders prolonged the innings, Hendersc,n finishiniz wi~ h 18 not out at the end of the first day's play.

With an over-night declaration at 168 for 9 the Royalians opened their second innings on ti,_~ resumption of the final day's play. They ~oon were in trouble and at lunch had 56 for the loss of five wickets Soon af\ er, one of their bats, Lewis, together with Fantin carried the score 0n to 132 before the partnership was bro-

first game we were no match for the QRC defenders Meanwhile the ooposing forwards were thwarted in , their attempts by the defence of our_goals by Morrison, Dummett Wendt, Ng-A-Qui and to a les~er extent by Narine, our goal keeper.

quite ,static due to faub y organisation and the absence of referees atl ma> ches.

Meanwhile, the school's 1st XI which has not been very active since its return from T'dad. has played one m~ ch in the junior league competition again.s.t Lodge United which w.as drawn 2-2 .

Practice sessions have now been fully started. since 1 'he end of the house competition and it is plea_,.i.ng to see a no able increase in tihe number of, boys.

4C TABLE-TENNIS CLUR During the pr~t Christmas term, members of the 4C Table Tennis Oubl ran off a form handicap tournament among them.selvces.

This tournament attracted twenty-eight entries among whom were top rated Table Tennis players. Points ranged from - 6 to 8. The entrance fee was five cents.

The competition on the whole was up to standard and revealed that certain members of this form possessed much talent.

Fram as far as the quarter finals, there was much competition. The toughest match of this round was between D. P. Pooran ( + 6) and R Venton (-6) with the latter winning out tw,o games to nil.

Then came the semi-finals stage. The semi-finali'lts were: M F S Massiah (-4), C.L Clarke (-6): M. E. Marks (-6) and J. C. Benfield (-6). In the first semi-

We were beaten in athletics by a better machine, sp~aki1:g metaphorically and it 1s fitting to say t hat our athletes performed creditably in the adverse atlmosphere Wendt and McDavid must be lauded for winning the triple jump and the 880 Yds respec, ively incidentally tihese were the only wins for Q. C. Once more. mention must be made of McDavid who h eiped the elder Moll ey io smash the record for the 400 metres, and ·of' Andy Morrison, one of Hhe youngest members of the group. who turned out to be the best allrounder.

There were two tours which highlightled the ~chedule for the tour. At Texaco a com~

final Massiah took on Clarke and won out finally by three games to two. Then it was Benfield battling it out with Marks, the ev,entual win~r.

Marks finally won from Ben- · field by three g~s to two.

The finals was played off on the 28th October and Massiah (-4) and Marks (-6) were stag.e d in a ding-dong tussle. Marks finally won and thus emerged champion of this tournament. Six prizes were awarded. to t he winnf'·runner-up, 2 semi-finalists and two special prizes were awarded to D. P. Pooran and R. A. L. Fletcher for the two most promising youngsters.

On Wednesday 27th of October, a T.'F. Team oomprising M. Mas!ili,,h. B""fi.elrl.

S. Olarke L.. Marks M. and Misir H ., played a match agalnst 4A It ended in our favour: four games to one.

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Unfon unately we lost all ken, t he former carrying his bined Q.R.C .-Q.C., team playthree tournaments and the/ oat for a stubborn 33 while ed a match versus the commanner in w hich the boys the latter made a prolific 51. pany's football eleven. The enjoyed th emselves with re-, Their innings ended with the ~ame ended nil-all, J . CumSQect to extra-curricular ac-- score at 15!;3. The QC team, berbatch along wi11h 0\ her tivities would lead one to whose hopes of winning were members from the Q.R.C .

Camp & Charlotte Streets suspect that this was the cause spoiled by intermittent driz- team, .stealing the show. A of our failure. In cricket we zles and subsequently by that game against British P etro~ The No. 1 Shopping Centre for lost t he first game by 36 -runs. long partnership, thertupon leum ended in a 3-1 victory Batl ing second we made 87 begun their second innings. for the company's XI. LADIES HATS SHOES & HANDBAGS runs in reply to QRC's first With the score at 13· w ithout From an educational po·nt l innings total of 143. Wit~ a loss the threatenmg r~in final - of view the tour was v:ry I Dial 2728 lead of 56 run? the ~oyahans J.y came d~wn continuously 1 ~uccessful. Socially it was exy-,er_e all fout, 1n their se~fnd I ahnd dthu.s ru med the rest of citing and we mui:t express Illi;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;_;;;;;;;;;;;;_ _ _ _ _ 1 mnmgs or 80 runs, se i?g e ay s Pay. our gratitudp to those paQC 146 runs to make for vieAt football we were com- rents w ho billeted our boy tory in just over 170 minutes. pletely outplayed. ?terling privately. It mus1! be noteJ We se, about our task and performances were displayed however that ga · t" soon lest Kirton and Robin- by Morrison, Dummett, Evans could ha' b or . msa iodn · son. Th en M ornson an d N g- and J oh nny c um b erb a t c h upon I ve . een f" timprove f b · a who always ·proved a threa• · mat h. nfo our· irs oo· a 11f A -Q u1· came toget h er m partners hip that cost Q.R.C. to the. Royalians' defence. In 1 our l r ms 13nee: one 0 42 r uns. Morrison contributing th e first match, played on the min t y P t~ea wat t;e~ty 22 and Ng-A-Qui a chanceless Guardian Grdund, we were arra~ :s a e. ue O au i y 38. After the fall of those two beaten bv 4 goals to 2 after . g ments in 11ransportawickets came the collapse and the Royahans h ad n etted tion. . r. · ........... .

• it was the tailenders who thrice within the first 20 minGenerally spf'akmg therehelped to prolong t he immi- utes of play.

We improved fore, we remain convinced nent defeat of t~e QC team. after Cumberbatch netted a 1hat goodwill tours of a simiIn the bowling department :toal in the last minute o.f the Jar nature should be mention mus t be made of Kir- first half and afi er Crawford, encouraged. and we look SHOP AT 1· on and "big Charles' Cam- who was retarded bv lack of forward to being hosts bridge who, came off well nroPer transportation arrived. when we shall endeav:our with figures of 4 wickets for The second match played to turn the tables on the field ,Booke rs U.n iversal' Bu ilding 53 runs and 5 wicket'S for 38 on their home ground w as of play and a, the same time runs respectively. Together cr.mple1ely dominated by 1' he to treat our guests royally.

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ARE WE TRAINING HARD ENOUGH IN OUR SPORTS ?

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This year'~ House cricket Nobbs 97, D . Morri..-on claim- House, 208 for 6 wicket,,~ decompeti ion offered as many ing 5 wickets. clared. K. Henderson 87 and secondly 12 without loss.

Within the last few years by th e majoritiy of the school's surprises as disap poin tmen t,5 TakinJZ first ,scttrike on Tuesa notable decline in the form- senior students. T he members in th e performan ce of cer tain day, Pilgrj,m, after a very erly high ,5tandard of our of the school's teams have houses. Con t rary to the tJype impressive sta rt, slumped to a games has been observed. virtually no competitiion in of competition played in past rather disappoin1iing total of much t\o the concern of the retaining their positions. T his years, this year's was played 97. Mainly re, ponsible for this authorities. It is a familiar has resulted in less training on a knock-out basis, hence, wa5 P ersaud, a new-comer to sight 110 see a QC XI walking and subsequently, has been some hou<;eS play«!{.i one matc!i Q.C. who cl aimed 5 wickets off the field of pl ay with sad t he· cause of our constan t and ollhers played as many as for 27 runs. discouraged looks, having lost d efeats. Besides, although three or four. Th e amount of have coaches, there matches played includ ing the some game. The Q ueen'{> Col- we Weston. not failing to t ake lege tour of Trinidad brought s t i 11 remains a proper finals were 9. In these games, advantage of t his .<;ituation. matters · o a climax when the t r a i n i n g programme to 1qut' e a few new-comers to r eached the score of 208 for QRC team convincingly beat be formula ed. Again apart Queen 's distingu ished. them'' 6 wickets d eclared. and !-O us in all three tournaments: from not havina an athletics selves a,; competlen t cncketers. placed 1h t>mselves in a very cricket, footba11 and athletics. coach it .-e ems t hat only an- . The matches fixed fo~. !he K: HENDERSON strong po ition. The person Apparently futile attempts nual atten ion is paid to at·h - f1rst round of the compe 1t10n The semi-i'inalist,s in the takinJZ honours f'or Weston's w ere made, prior to the tour, J'etics. This,, I ·thµik . was were Weston ~ ou~e versus by games-masters, to enforce mainly responsible for -0ur Woolley and P1lgr1m. versus com petition were Weston ver- high i.core was popular the recognised law that games dl!lfeait in Athl~~s on the Durban. Weston gamed a 51~ Percival and Pilgrim ver- ''Potter" Hen dersoln,. ~coring t0ur. for the Q.R.C. lads first innings decision over , us Austin. Weston defeated another sparkling- 87 with a are compulsory. train all y ea r round, having Woolley a n d P i.l grim . de- Percival on fi rst inning-, and wide range of s1trokeplay. His Of course it is not whether numerous meetings to take feated Dur ban m 1 1 k e Pilgrim got an ou~,right vic- nowerful inning helped a lot manner. The final scores wer e. tory over Austin. Scores were in weakeninr1 the morale of we win or lose, l;iu"' at the narti in. in the former game, Weston in the former game Weston, the fielding side. It was evi.came t~me, who likes to lose House 153 for 8 wickets de- 134, K. Henden,on making a dent from the reaction,, of all the time? We must thereWihat our boys lack is fore, ask ourselves the ques- physical fitness. I think hi· clared, with Haynes, the cap- lively 62, and in the second Pil,n-im's team 1ihat th ey had tion : "Are we ·raining hard should form an integral part tain, scoring a da5hing 76 and inning:; 113; P ercival 126 and :ilreadv lost when they faced e nouJZh in our sports divi- of the training programme we Woolley Hou5e 91. In the lat- 74 for 8 wickets. In the latr- t he 111 r uns deficit.

T hev ~ion ?" off t h e second hope w ill soon be adopted. It ter game, Durban scored 64 in ter game, Pilgrim made in the started l st and 2nd innings respective- innings wfth little enis hoped that boys will make reply to Pilgrim's 121.

The games in the second ly 132 and 62, D . Morrison thusiasm 111 is obvious from r ecent full u;e of lhe pr actice sesand in spite results that we a re not, and sions and in so doing, build round were W~· ton versus taking 6 wickets for 18 run,: of a defiant 59 bv Bacchus i ' is my. opinion that this is up the strength of our sports Cunningham and P ilgrim ver Ausirin made 115 and secondly 1,h ey were only ab.le to acsus Raleigh . These matches 64. C. Jobe claiming 5 wickets cumulate 121. W eston, appa~ particularly due to the persis- Ii vision. resulted in vicforie,, for Wes- for 20 runs. tent lack of inter~, t displayed rently over-confident of vicK. HENDERSON The finals, played between tory, even aid ed Pilgrim House ton and Pilgrim , on first inn ings in both games. The Pilgrim and We,;ton from by droppinJZ seven catch e5 in score.3 were W eston, 215: K. ! uesday to Saturday , ended a very poor fieldin!! di, play.

Hende~on scoring a brilliant m a well-deserved victorv for NE'vertheless, 11hey were only 64, and Cunningh am 95. In t:!-ie Weston House, by lien wi-~ kets called upon to make 11 runs ' latter match, Ralei~h replied The fina l score.~ were; Pilgrim for victory. This thev easilv with 94 to P ilgrim's 153, out House, 97 and secondly 121. di~. adding the coup de grac·e of which Bacchus, a new-<:om- ~acchus making 59; Weston w 1thou t losing any wicket s er to Q ueen's, made 54. T his Very recently, two pairs of boxina " loves appear,ed match proved that the winin the Zoo Lab and quice naturally a~ ; 1mber of short ners of the 1965 competition SEE GUYANA F~RST . . ~ bouts were fought. Since then an exceedingly gr.eat and would not be last year's cham- ~ pions, Ral eigh House, Qecause fervent interest in boxing has dc.velop.ed among a large t hey w ere p u t ou t\ of further Guyan.ese - .Know your country. The wonderl number of boys in school. part icipation. §of Ka1eteur 1s a , must. So is the fascinating~ The participants of the third .~t a me.eting held, it was unanimously agreed that round were P ercival versus ~beauty of Guyana s mountains, valleys, water-~ falls, savannahs. See Orinduik, lmbaimadai, ~ a boxmg club should be formed at Queen's so as to put Moulder and Austin veiisus Nobbs.

P ercival gained an boxing on che games list.

Kamarang, Rupununi, - after Kaieteur. outright victory over Moulder ~ GUYANA TRAVEL TOURS ~ Syd ney A. Mcjintosh feels McIntosh goes on to say and Austin defeated Nobbs on first innings.

The outstanding ~ c / o R.H. Rickford, Demerara Life Copound ~ that boxing shouad be promot- that a boy who can control u re of the former match fea1 , ~ i t!

• Rob~ & High Sta., or Dial / 61063. ~ ed at Q ueen's becausie it his fists is sure to havie more was 'Dash' Defreitas's bowlwould be an ideal way of conf!dence in himself, and that ._'ll't!JYJ~'tfJ'tfJ~~~~~W'il~YJUJ~f)WW~fi~fJ~(Jf', ing; He claimed 6 wickets for teaching boys the art of self- boXIng would develop a great15 r uns. The scores in the ~~~~~m.~tRiff,.fft~~fft.fft:fftfftlft:fft.U~fftfft~~'-~ defence in this violent p resent er understanding among the latter match were Austin 173. day world. A part from this it boys of the schooll. Lastly he D. Morrison making 58 and would widen the choice of points out that boxing, if inkeep-fit games, keeping in troduced would be one of the ~ ~ mind the fact that ievery boy most inexpensive games here ._·. r.J • .I~ a in school must play at least He looks forward to the day and t hree-round fights with "', ~ !~ referees were nothing unusual. one game. in t he very near future when ~ at ~ he can see and · be an active ~ ~ Mr. Perry me ntions the • Ph 2451 ._ member of a well functioni.ng one .,,., boxing club at Queen's Col- rames of two old boys who ~ competed successfu1ly abroad, ~ •ring tbe cbilbren to Slip ..elCo to ..1fatber ~bristmu lege.

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Further he says that boxing is 'Jn the agenda of most, if not all young , men's associations, and a lso universities a nd colleges abroad. He i.s a ~ d t hat in an institution such as Queen's Golllege, boxing i.s not included in the sports curriculum. He does feel that no fear of i.njury should arise smce the wearing of sixteen ounce gloves by opponents would destroy any chances of I harmf ul injury.

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-Another similar point of vi.ew is put forward by Mr. Perry, an ardent sportsman and member of our tutorial staff. When asked for his opm1on on the formation of a boxing club Mr. Perry, an ex-amateur boxer at Queen's, said without hesitation "I'm all for the cllub." H e took us back a few years to the ti~ when he was a boy at t hi.s school, telling of a group of boys including himself, who used to arrange boxing competitions and exhibition bouts to raise funds for charity. He says that boxing always used to be a part of College life

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L·ictor Litera r y :Com petition 1rIHI lE

The "Lictor" sponsored a Literarv Competition this te1m to promote literary activities and encourage young writers.

The nurn'ber of entries was fairly great, but somev.·hat smaller than expected.

In this issue, the "Lictor·· publishes the winning entries in this competition. The jHCl~es. ~Ir. N. A. nobinson (Junior) and :\liss Loncke (Senior) declared thal they found the entries 'most interesting'. The winning entries are as follows:

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By Rambarat, C. (VRB)

The light flickered, blinked and finally went on. The shop bridge was immediately im· mersed in the pale, white rays from the four foot fluorescent light. Some men were SHORT STORY: POETRY: fetching a rostrum from -Junior Section - ''Old~· Junior Section - "Awake t h e shop. their backs

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0 Lads'' by G. E. D. Mc Al- bent under its weight.

Senior Sea ion - "The Po- lis1er. , They let it fall w'ith a bang litical Meeting'' l:zy C. RamSenior Seo ion ''The Cry" and wiped the perspiration barrat. ''A very lively piece by Brian Chan, whose "ski!- from · their flushed faces of writing, spiced with a sense ful and sensitive use of Ian- Somew here from ·he crowd of humour which make.'> it guage to create and o:ustain outside' someone shouted an enjoyable reading." mood is indeed remarkable.'' obsceni1y at them. Da lchand, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - , the main speaker 11hat even ing, brough out a microphone and fitted it next to Hhe rostrum, and a large toy car (which was Dalchand's symHAMILTOIV bol.) Agam someone ~hou'~d an insult calling on Dalchand &4$r~ to start his meetin0 . By now ' he crowd had grown a bit and Dalchand was indeed pleased and 'thrilled to see 50 many 'patriots'. What puzzled Por exclusive designs him was the presence of a couple of old grey donkey!; For distinctive styling and a few grunting pigs.

audience roared with laughi er Somewhere, someone made a nasty wisecrack and this cau:-cd adciitlional amusement .

"Friends, we are gathert d here to hear Mr. Dalchand speak. His !ather, P ana:, Oudit Narine Maraj, 1s well known to all of vou. Without further ado. I present to you, Pandit Oudit . .. T mean Mr. Dalchand.

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to subdue j, , and smiled, wiping away the mess f'rom hi, face with his handkerchief Ano:lher eg,:r flew through the air and took him on the ches< staining his spotless terylene shirt. Hi-. temper had now burst, i1 s bonds and his ful] fury fell on the aug,ence:-

LaUjee was soaking wet.

He could feel beads of pers· piratior. trickling down hi, legs. tickling them. Hi , face was drenched. his sh irt stuck uncomfor~ably , o his back and hb clenched fists were dripping. He gratefully left the rostrum, picked hi - way gingerly to the back of he shop bridge and ~at deiectedly G. Mac ALLISTER into a straight-backed chair .

"Eggs won't hurt me but a He was 9 ill smarting, thinkbad Government, such as- the in.ir what a com . ica1' figure he had cut beforp lihe unappre- present one, will , ee you all in • he dung heap. Af er all ciative audience. my father had done for you .

Dalchand approllched the this is the way you greet me. 'mike' amidst a spatter of you un_grateful bitches,-with hand clapping-. wild heckling eggs and boos. I had though and ca• -cans. He wa, smilin.g and :1ppeared unperturbed but d<'PD down. doubts were already forming.

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but was specially thrilled o be given an opportunity to preside over one. He had carefully prepared a lenghty speech with many long., emphatic words · o impress both tihe audience and Dalchand. He had practised for days before his mirror and had learnt every syllable by heart. What was more, he had alway.wanted to be a successful pub lie speaker buti the oppor· unity never came. With this ,t hought in mind, he strode manfully on the shop bridgP His appearance was greered with heckle, and cat-calls. Tc these he merely smiled back By new, tension had gripped him. He approached the ''mike" with fear and a hollow sensation in his stomach He had never spoken ' hrough a public address ~ystem before· and he always felt a tinge of excitement when he flhough:' of it. He felt his knees grow weak, his eyelids were quivering and this made s.ight difficult. He felt his ve•t sticking onto his back and this made him much more uncom· for11able. What was more. he sensed the feeling of hostility towards him, in I he air. He wm sorry he had ever accepted Dalchand's invitation t'O chair the meeting. He knew th3' violence would eventually end it. "'

drinl I cfin Anna changeci A stoi chand' a. and ins1 who wo ~h op lac of rum, instincti and graJ ing nosE on the their pre awav. fro~ all ,<itiage, curses. J sought closed d ~ccident' fl uorescE with a 11 'Oh La" we.' shot

T his a , mon;um. hus ling of 1'1e r mischiev the r l')str1 ter 2nd , car. Ins thing q uiet his inju right ha was sobb ried head hands.

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"Friends, Guyanese, countryme:1.'' he shouted, "we are gathered here to listen , o the pleadings of your servant 11c.lchand. I ask you t,o suppor: me, to ..-. upport a man of po1' ential. Guyana needs a mat" of integrity, a man of social standing and last but not least, a man who has lived in the same society as youn, a man who has borne the troubles of the world like you, a man who enjoys the same privileges as you do.

Far these rea-;ons I recommend to you your humb:e servant, Dal chand .. .''

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Af this point, a donkey started to bray, followed by ano1·her and the large crowd became helpless with laughter From the back came signs of disorder. and someone 9 arted hi,; own public meeting, a~nouncing Dalchand. He could sense the c,-owd's hostili:ty but continued manfully. ''I promi£e you, if I am elected in the Legislai ive A..-,sembly, I will tr'£_ my best 1 o save you from the pinnacle of the Government."

His emphasis on "pinnacles" was unheard. The crowd was ge ting unruly by now. ' 'I will always remember Annandale and its respectiable re~.idents. I have rum in the casks and it is all for you. This will show how much I think of you.''

DON'T JUGGLE WITH THE COMP The crowd started •· o cheer YOUR BUSINESSand Dalchand, smiling broadly, motlioned to Lalljee to Today's buc;iness executi"e is supposed to brinl? out the rum. Suddenly - luckily he is not expected to a<:hievc an ef!g was thrown from 1· he handed. He is expected to employ t•ffki, crowd to Dalchand and it efficient office (•quipment and h ere is wh caught him squarely in the face. H was a rotten egg-. I1 '" Call:awful smell shocked him 1 and he felt himself de"Friends,'' he squeaked into veloping n a u s e a.

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L et'.~ hope its arandeurs would forever stay Iri om village where we ·play on days That are illuminated by the sun's mys.

How long wi lt thou lie in thy bed and sleep?

• The stooges have begun the street to sweep.

The milk-man has finishe d his chores and more, I.IS OF

T he bread- bQY has brought his goods to my door.

Mr. Jones has gone out with his cows and calves, The wood hclS been cut into more than hah,es.

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Your .Aunt has left with t hE! plane for York .

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But there comes a time w hen men must rest Those who ihrvttgh the day hrive done their best.

So until then, arise and stir J

0 niy brave lads! arise and stir.

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1 Against the vermilion back- like brick ! Man even me dag out, of the poor u:ider-fed ground resulting from the wuh is a bitch wuhn disgrace child. He felt his heart bea> fading sun-light, were sil- heself by eat1ing dis ting, · 1 faster ; he felt h.h body grow houet,ted two ~ol.ttary figures concluded Joyce, all the ,·irne tense ; then as he heard the boy's foot-s· eps, his face grew - one in hot pursuil and the sposmodically gesticulaiting.

Scarcely had the words left pale, his fist turned white, hi :; other being pursued.

Joe, on discovering that two ~er ' mouth th~n she saw the long hair stood on edge; he plan11ains were missing from little boy running helter skel- was now ready for the sprin~1 the bunch he had managed to ter in her direction. A grin Then suddenly he remembe;steal from the market, dis- played on the ed~e., of her ed that he was being pursued played great disgust, inter mouth .a~ she reahsed what He looked back juS1 in fdmE' mingled wi h anger. Fortu · was wa1tmg for the boy when to st=:e the policeman round nately, a , he raised his head he arrived home la.'e. She wa s the bend about a h1mdrerl he observed the fleeing fig· still gazing after him when yards off. Quickly. th.oughture of a meagre looking boy suddenly she heard a heavy le~sly, Joe bolted ·rrom behind Joe had worked ha.rd to brin r pattering of foot-steps behind f,he car and collided head on off the theft of those plan' her. She looked around star- inf o the boy. For a moment · ains, so when he saw t h ' led, just to come face to face thev rumbled. tumbled. furnobvious suspect, it was wit' with Unc~e Joe. But before bled. then the bpy Pot up fir,,1, great ;.:nthtisia~m 1,hat hE' she had time to move out of and made good his escaoe clenchea his fist and offered h!s way, one of h~ flapping About thir,' y seconds later hips struck her with a ll ii s UnclP Joe managed to gafhpr pursuit. force and as a result, not only himself together iust in time Despite the irregular pro portions of his ana 1,omy. he her food lay on the ground in · o look up into the cold eyes posses'-'ed an amazing amoun t a heap, but she herseli. It of a well~bmlt man in police of agilit~; and on I his occa· would have been simply won- uniform. . "Collect yourt elf buddy'' sion was not slow in reveal- derful I o see h?w this woman suddenly cherished the food / said the calm firm voice. in_g it. With breast1-a-flapping she had been criticising only ''Is rlis bye dat stole m e hips a-wagging, and abdomen plantain," retorted Uncle J oo a-heaving, he supplied great a moment ago.

By now, Uncle Joe havin 1"Which boy ?" amu ~ement as he gingered lost sight of the boy, stopped "Look him - Eh, eh is web behind his foe.

After two n:iinutes had elapsed. faint ,o catch his breath. He rested de rascal gone ?''

All ,' hose f1hat knew decided s1ip1s of frustration were be- for a little while, then Jookin rr ,ginning to appear on Joe's back, observed that the wo- to keep, quiet because thev face ; but the more obvious man whose baskets he had knew that tbe two plan1.ain.., these became, the more his deg royed, was running wit}, would be I' he main mirt oi' t he a policeman to him. Joe had weekly substan11ial meal for determination grew.

At last Joe seemed to be no alternative but to r uri himself, mother and four sisgaining on his opponent whc faster r han the policeman ters.

A despised Uncle Joe left had just begun to r.njoy the This he found to be far from hard, for by now a few pound~ tne scene, after he had b een fun . Then wheri 'he w,r of his fat had melted away charged with his head bowed within one foot''3 disf1ance a.' and he had begun to show a shower of tears fallin~ from 'he boy, he made one tremP.n· dous leap towards him, but signs of being a promising his eyes as he recalled 1be athlete. Shadows of darknes~ mis-fortunes that had befell unfortunately, ib hapoened tr had stolen across the sky and him. Then out of the blue he be a mis-average. However now the real man in Joe was remembered that he had lef so eager was JoE: to make an- beginnin,g to show. It; was 1\he rest of the bunch of planother leap, 1 hat instead of now ample time for Joe to tains at th~ markei". Realising waitin_g unili) he landed, h E> make use of the alleys he was that there was no time to decided to jump a,gain whilst accus omed to. lose, he darted back to the lte was still in mid-air. The Uncle Joe Wc\S just begin- -:cene with all speed. ' But. result of this was qufe credit- ning to lose keenness when alas ! the bey had deciderl ro able; for despifle his encum- he saw the little boy run- take home a luge remforcebrances, he brought off a ning at full speed to- ment. prodigious achievement whic;'• him. Quickly he was:- to be the first humar wards

By Godfrey E. D. H. darted behind a car.

As he rocke!" to crash-land, not in a Mc Allister. waited, he thought of how fores1', Or' in an ocean. but if' Form 3 C. he would beat the daylights a heap of frail lookirle bas· ke~1: which were owned b y one of the few remainin~ ven- IMPRESSIONS OF dors. Desp~·e the fact that he was now being accommodated lSlS ®o R,. fr' . W( f(j) T(j) lU7 ~ IT 'ii' ~ SJ II by a material which was soft, l.W fi"u ~ il ~ ~ l_m l..r' illJ. ~ ~ ~ compared with his concrete The first time I saw Black stood many of the mind-teasmattress, he go' up almost Orpheiis, I was expecting to ing symbols and juxtaposition as soon as he landed. s e e a brilliant fl 1 m. which the photograph y poses "I will have you locked up". having read of its criti- (perhaps 1 am still trying too wailed the woman in sorrow: cal suC'cess, i ts Cannes and on seeing Joe flake off at Grand Prix. and its Academy a tremendous pace, decided to Award; I was disappointed. I join · he race. found it only mildly interestA little way 0ff, stood Joyce ing (I even yawned a bit), and Gertrude, the gaffers but remember noting some''Ay child. is wuh you tink, where rather vaguely that it bout de talks dey aving in was "a t ruly brilliant film ".

Landon ? "asked Joyce in , What I was most fascinaited matter of fact manner. by, was the way the myth ' 'Well well, well, ill seem as was modernised, and I was if we gettin we independence particularly pleased to find after all. Fuh tink dat w "' that I could recognise, for aint guhn gob fuh depend instance, that the descent by pun dem wuttless man no mo ! Orpheus (of the film) down ''Bull de ting dat got me exag- the spiral staircase symbo- hard) , but what this film now gerated is the clap ah we dii: lised the descent into Hades has to g ive me is a sense of Premier ge· ! look how dem by the Orpheus of the myth. the happinesses, tragedies people bow down fuh he Some months later, I won- and behaviour of ordinary chile !" added Joyce energeti- dered whether critics, for people. That is all: I w'Hl cally. once, had paid too much at- never see this film again but "Well is suh when yuh deb tention to its novelty and not for this which it can offer high." enough to the way it was (and perhaps for some beau''By the way," asked Joyce handled Recently. I sawi the tiful but artificial scenery of "Wuh happen to de food I film again and this t ime was the otherwise slightly rough deb ask you t'O prepare fuh determined to scan it rather photography). However, I meh ?" .. , cynically. I was surprised to must point out certain merits ''Don't fnghten chile, ah find that the film was not the of the film for the sake of tl 1e go' um hey fuh yuh good and one I had yawned at months prospective viewer.

The actors all have beautiprop2a." before, but a new. exciting ex''Man but dis food you got perience, which. like a poem fully controlled facial exhey got · oo much salt an too could 'communicate before it pression which hides any lil bit peas; an wuh is wus is understood'.

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You , tink a nd you know that you stink : Every step, every spii . every savage drink Is in defiance of the habitudes of sobre blue and pink And no1t-as-pink people and him. You mu-t shock. You w ill ink Or scratch unspoken words on everv wall (The unspoken words you blatantly bawl) .

DiJt in the na1l and scrawl Yourself across living; splinter every link Wi 'lh other men which never think But onlv stand about and shape their lips and blink Ferociously at one another ferociously at notihing at all : All on the sicksweet brink Of heaven , all waiting for · their call From the Great Worm God into whom t,hey un · knowing fall .

"God,, , you cry, "rhe out of your snake pit And stretch yourself, display your pride To ' hose who blinking see only the rainbow Cver ~he hole ! I spib In their eye and thus in yours: you cannot hide From me. I see the black Reflecterl in the cheating rainbow. Go back To you ? 0 give me Hell and heati and the red instead.

I will not rot, God, under you · I will not rot with the dead'.

I w ill burn not crumble wit-h t he bawling bad: J want to know 1ihe painful death of melting lead.

And hope the fiercest fire will be blazing at my head !''

Only I have heard you sinner and I bring you bitlter new~ to hear "nd bitter tears to shed. God Cannot feel. How can be now?

This Was c he noblest blinker of 11 hem all Cannot feel. Your interpre- · tation was vomited In honesty. But you shou, ed out.

Against a tbin t1al1 cross in A desert; you puked into an Already foul pit of a rot, ing worm.

There is not1 a difference, there is not a choice; And although I hear your voice Revolt, I bring you bitter tears ~o shed, I bring :you news that God is dead.

B. Chan.

"AWAKE, 0 LADS" - G. McAllister Air:ri·e O lads and greet the da y:

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Friday, December 3, 1965

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