The Record 1985

Queens' College Record 1985

Queens' College as at March 1985 Visitor Patroness President

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN

HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER ERNEST RONALD OXBURGH, M.A., Ph.D. (Princeton), F.R.S. Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology

Honorary Fellows: The Rev. Henry Chadwick, M.A., Mus.B., D.D., D.D. (h.c.) (Glasgow), F.B.A., Emeritus Regius Professor of Divinity Sir Thomas Padmore, G.C.B., M.A. Sir Harold Walter Bailey, M.A., D.Litt. (h.c.) (W. Australia), D.Litt. (h.c.) (Australian National University), D.Litt. (h.c.) (Oxon), D.D. (h.c.) (Manchester), F.B.A. Lord Allen of Abbeydale, G.C.B., M.A. Alfred Charles Tomlinson, M.A., Professor of English in the University of Bristol The Rt. Hon. Sir George Stanley Waller, O.B.E., M.A., Lord Justice of Appeal Robert Neville Haszeldine. M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S. James Arthur Ramsay, M.B.E., M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. Cyril Humphrey Cripps, M.A., LLD. (h.c.), D.S.c. (h.c.) (Nottingham) The Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen Brown, M.A. Lord Justice of Appeal

'New Queens'from the old; Cripps building over the wooden bridge!

Fellows: .

Edwin Arthur Maxwell, M.A., Ph.D., Life Fellow, formerly Senior Bursar and Director of Studies in Mathematics.

James Arthur Ramsay, M.B.E., M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Life Fellow, formerly Vice-President and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Physiology.

The Rev. Henry St Jqhn Hart, M.A., B.D., Life Fellow and Hebrew Lecturer, formerly Vice-President, Dean and Director of Studies in Divinity.

Sir Harold Walter Bailey, M.A., D.Litt. (h.c.) (W. Australia), D.Litt. (h.c.) (Australian National University), D.Litt. (h.c.) (Oxon), 0.0. (h.c.) (Manchester), F.B.A., Life Fellow, Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit.

Douglas Parmte, M.A., Life Fellow, formerly Tutor and Director of Studies in Modern Languages.

John Holloway, M.A., Litt.D., D.Phil. (Oxon), D.Litt. (Aberdeen), F.R.S.L., Life Fellow, Emeritus Professor of Modern English.

Henry Cohen, M.A., Ph.D. (~unelm)f Life Fellow, formerly Co!lege Lecturer in Engineering.

Derek William Bowett, C.B.E., Q.C., M.A., LLD., Ph.D. (Manchester), F.B.A., Whewell Professor of International Law, formerly President.

Anthony Colin Spearing, M.A., Director of Studies in English.

Sir James William Longman Beament, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S., F.R.S.A., Vice-President, Drapers Professor of Agriculture.

James Martin Prentis, M.A., M.Sc. (Eng), Ph.D. (London), College Lecturer in Engineering.

Norman Francis Hughes, M.A., Sc.D., Keeper of the Records and Assistant Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Earth Sciences).

Kenneth Ewart Machin, M.A., Ph.D., Assistant Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Physics).

Ajit Singh, M.A., B.A. (Punjab, Chandigarh), M.A. (Howard, Washington), Ph.D. (Berkeley, California), Director of Studies in Economics.

Brian Albert Callingham, M.A., B.Pharm., Ph.D. (London) F.P.S., Director of Studies in Medical Sciences.

James Diggle, M.A., Ph.D., Praelector and Director of Studies in Classics.

Peter Jaffrey Wheatley, M.A.,¡ Ph.D., Assistant Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Chemistry).

John Tiley, M.A., B.C.L. (Oxon), Director of Studies in Law John Edward Carroll, M.A., Sc.0., Professor of Engineering.

Peter Gonville Stein, M .A., LL.B., Ph.D. (Aberdeen), Dr. iuris (h.c.) (Gottingen), F.B.A., Regius Professor of Civil Law. The Rev. Canon Brian Leslie Hebblethwaite, M.A., 8.0 ., Dean of Chapel, Director of Studies in Theological and Religious Studies and in Philosophy. lain Richard Wright, M.A., Tutor, Librarian and Assistant Director of Studies in English.

John Timothy Green, M.A., Ph.D., Senior Tutor and Director of Studies in Mathematics.

David Barry Sattelle, M.A., Ph.D., Assistant Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Biology).

Thomas Henry Coaker, M.A., Ph.D., B.Sc. (London), Steward and College Lecturer in Natural Sciences.

Willaim Andrew Phillips, M.A., Ph.D., Admissions Tutor and College Lecturer in Physics.

Brian William Napier, M.A., Ph.D., LLB. (Edinburgh), Assistant Director of Studies in Law. Robin Douglas Howard Walker, M.A., Ph.D., Junior Bursar, Director of Studies in Computer Science and Assistant Director of Studies in Natural Sciences (Mathematics).

Roderick Arthur Smith, M.A., Ph.D., C.Eng., M.I.M., Director of Studies in Engineering Andrew Duncan Cosh, B.A., Ph.D., Senior Bursar and Assistant Director of Studies in Economics.

John Clive Ellory, M.A., B.Sc., Ph.D. (Bristol), College Lecturer in Physiology.

The Rev. Brendan Ignatius Bradshaw, M.A., Ph.D., Assistant Director of Studies in History.

Richard Robert Weber, M.A., Ph.D., Tutor for Research Students and Assistant Director of Studies in Mathematics.

Allan Nuttali Hayhurst, M.A., Ph.D., Director of Studies in Natural Sciences and in Chemical Engineering.

Peter Spufford, M.A., Ph.D., Director of Studies in History.

Vani Kant Borooah, M.A., M.A. (Bombay), Ph.D. (Southampton), College Lecturer in Economics.

James Anthony Jackson, M.A., Ph.D., Bye-Fellow (Geophysics) and Assistant Dean of College.

Christopher John Pountain, M.A., Ph.D., Tutor and Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages.

Naomi Dinah Segal, M.A., Ph.D. (London), Tutor and Assistant Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages.

George Carl Cormack, M.A., M.B., Ch.B. (Aberdeen), F.R.C.S. (Edinburgh), Tutor and Assistant Director of Studies in Medical Sciences.

Philip Anthony Towle, M.A., Ph.D. (London), Tutor for Graduate Students and College Lecturer in History.

Richard Griffith Fentiman, M.A., B.C.L. (Oxon), Tutor and College Lecturer in Law. Charles Russell Matthews, B.A., Ph.D., College Lecturer in Mathematics.

Roger John Davis, M.A., Ph.D., Research Fellow (Biochemistry).

Steven Nicholas Botterill, M.A., Ph.D., Research Fellow (Modern and Medieval Languages).

Jane Margaret Bewick, B.A. (Aberdeen), Research Fellow (Modern and Medieval Languages).

Jonathan Michael Holmes, M.A., Vet M.B., Ph.D., M.R.C.V.S., Bye-Fellow (Veterinary Sciences) and Lay Chaplain.

Paula Jeanne Durlach, Ph.D. (Yale), Research Fellow (Experimental Psychology) Peter Howard Haynes, M.A., Ph.D., Research Fellow (Mathematics) Peter Alexander Swaab, M.A., Research Fellow (English) Malcolm David Macleod, M.A., Ph.D., Bye-Fellow (Engineering) Keith Johnstone, Ph.D., B.Sc. (Leeds), College Lecturer in Biochemistry David Cebon, B.E. {Mech.) (Melbourne), College Lecturer in Engineering.

F ro m the Presi dent This year just a s the Record was going t o press, we were saddened by the news of the death of Max Bull. Later in the Record Brian Callingham writes of Max's con­ tribution to Queens' and to medicine in Cambridge. We have lost a dear friend and colleague, and our deepest sympathies are with Catherine and the family.

When I wrote this time last year, I reported that the emergency work that had become necessary to secure · parts of the Lodge was underway. I am glad to report that the structure is now secure, the most urgent work having been done we now have a temporary respite from d rilling, sawing, hammering and plast.ering. The only problem is to pay for the work, but more of that separately and later.

As work subsides in one part of the College, however, it begins in another. O u r generous be nefa c t o r Dr Humphrey Cripps, has informed us that the Cripps Foundation is now able to begin the third and final phase of the Crip ps develop ment on the west side of the river.

This phase will include a replacement for the former Fitzpatrick Hall that was dismantled to make way for the earlier phases of the Cripps development. The new multi­ purpose hall will _provide a h ome for many College · activities, but particularly drama and badminton. It will also give the College· a good lecture hall . The work will also involve the rebuilding of the present squash courts that are in a very poor state. The new structures will stand between Queens' ditch and the main building of Cripps Court and form the foreground to that building when viewed from Queens' Road . To meet this formidable architectural challenge the local architects Julian Bland and Barry Brown have been appointed.

In June last year the College received a most friendly visit from the President and some senior staff of Osaka Gakuin University in Japan. Osaka Gakuin have generously offered to help support a Research Fell ow at Queens' while, for our part, we shall seek to help Osaka Gakuin recruit suitable teachers of English in Cambridge.

For the most part the year has been a quiet one in which the College sporting sides have do ne well, without quite ever achieving the highest successes . Off the sporting field, the BATS staged a memorable performance of Measure for Measure in Cloister Court during May Week that was favourably reviewed in the national press.

Mention must also be made of the St Margaret's Society which celebrated its centenary by filling the Music School Auditorium with an ambitious and highly successful performance of The Dream of Gerontius, with a company of more than a hundred.

Finally I should like to take this opportunity of reminding Old Members that the College may well be able to provide them and spouses with inexpensive accom­ modation during short visits to Cambridge. In term time there is considerable pressure on the few guestrooms we have, but during vacations the situation is often much easier. In either case, bookings should be made with the Bursar's secretary, giving as much advance notice as possible. I should warn Old Members that, depending on their vintage , the standard of accommodation may not have risen very much since their undergraduate days and that the beds may still be hard ! We shall always be glad to see you.

M axwel l M a rsden B u l l Max Bull died peacefully at his home in Worthing on the 5th January 1 985 only three months after moving there to be close to his elder son John, following an operation for cancer of the bowel.

Max, was a Queensman through and through, from his first day as an undergraduate in 1 933 until the day he-died .

A First, followed by a scholarship to Barts, led to a post as a House Surgeon in its professional unit. While applying for another job he was offered a Demonstratorship in Anatomy by H. A. Harris, and within days he was back in Cambridge. Although he had volunteered fo r the Royal Navy at the beginning of the War, he was not called up into the Service until 1 945.

He returned to the Anatomy Department in 1 947 where he combined teaching with research which culminated in his M . D. At that time he took the decision to devote his energies to the teaching of anatomy and to the welfare of undergraduates, believing he would do neither properly it he tried to do research as well. Several thousand med ical practitioners should be grateful that he chose the path he did. Over the many years of his career in Cambridge he drew on his innate artistic skill to illustrate and explain the intricacies of embryology in drawings on the 2

blackboard that grew like their subject across the course of several lectures, accompanied by the co mmand to other lecturers, "Do not rub off'. Ignore that at your peril, even though it was disconcerting to feel the presence of the developing fetus at y our back and two hu ndred or so medical students in front!

But M ax came home to Cambridge properly upon admission to the Fellowship in 1957. Fellowship of Queens' meant to Max something that it is hard to appreciate in these times . The dilemma facing most of us now lies in finding a balance between · College and Department to keep the grumbles from both sides as few as possible. Max devoted himself whole-heartedly to the Anatomy Depart ment, teaching and supervising the Dissecting Room, and to Queens'. In this scheme there simply was no room for research without giving up sleep entirely.

He was Director of Stud ies to the Medical Students until he retired. In the style of Mr. Chips, Max was first a Tutor and - then a marvellous Senior Tutor, all that newcomers to the Cambridge scene believed Senior Tutors to be - housemasters to the allegedly grown up.

Dr. Max Bull

While the remnants of the old order remained - absits, permission to change between the three formal halls a night, smoking in a gown forbidden, and many other half forgotten rules and customs - Max ruled in his benevolent and unashamedly paternal way. The night that Freshmen arrived in Queens' they gathered in the Fitzpatrick Hall to stand on the entry of Max, followed by his Tutors and Deans; it was an awesome sight - even new tutors were known to tremble. Max could be fierce, and many a tutorial pupil will remember the price of his misdemeanours but will not complain that it was unfair or hurriedly exacted without careful thought. A terror he could be to the miscreant but a Joyal and true support for those who needed. him in times of trouble. It is possible that his system of old-fashioned justice has helped many to a sense of proportion and may even have helped a few to promotion, including the last man he gated.

Max could be exasperating, a master in the art of filibuster and obfuscation and even when defeated he had the last word more often than not. When faced with an imminent decision that he did not care for but could not find the evidence to challenge he would be reduced to, "Well I do not disagree," which he said in a way that clearly indicated he did. The trouble was that on occasions he was right.

But whatever Max did or said, one fact is certain, he was motivated entirely by what he felt were the best

interests of the individual and of the College. Self interest was no part of his make up. Honesty and integrity were the cornerstones of his complex character; they guided his behaviour even when tactics or, as some would say, commonsense would have been safer. In this he was courageous to a fault which, together with his commitments to established values of conduct, brought him to the very brink of disaster in the troubles at the end of the sixties. His detractors and adversaries fought with unfamiliar weapons in unfamiliar ways. He believed in fighting his battles on the open field. He preferred the claymore to the poison dart.

All in all, in spite of his confessed conservatism, Max was instrumental in laying the foundations of the modern Queens'. It was he (though some may say it was really his wife Catherine) who set up a proper Tutorial Office with proper files and a Tutors' Clerk . His style and techniques of interviewing potential undergraduates remain, like dominant genes, in the system used today; fewer anecdotes and homilies there may be, fewer comments like "Good clean boy" and scores like B++?+ (you did not get in on less than B++), but little else has changed.

All those who served as apprentice interviewers at the feet of the master will know how valuable that experience was.

He was an excellent host on social occasions both in College and at his home where hardly a week passed without a sherry party. It is fortunate that there were fewer cars on the roads then in .view of the precarious cycle ride back to Queens'. Max began the tutorial parties after General Admissions which were so successful in allowing tutors to see parents often for the first time. He was a staunch supporter of the Chapel, his fine voice usually audible above all others. It was here that he found a place that refreshed his simple and uncomplicated faith .

Especially at Advent he could look around and know he belonged.

He was a pillar of support in so many facets of College life, on the touchline, at the Medical Society, and then to the Graduates after his retirement as Senior Tutor. All will have their own memories of Max, the man and the 'institution'.

During his short - all too short - retirement Max could be found, on those evenings when he was in, surrounded by a battery of tape recorders, amplifiers and speakers, but more often than not with the headphones clamped to his head . He would look like a cross between an air traffic controller - there was a TV set somewhere there as well - and a character from Dr. Who. He derived endless pleasure from his music which all his life had meant a great deal to him. But also he revelled in tapes of his younger son Peter's broadcasts on medical matters in Pidgin English to the people of the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). .

Despite the almost constant pain and discomfort from his ever more decrepit hips, he kept going - swimming with his stalwart friends, attending the Medical Society and its dinners and there even leading the "ritual" known only to its members and a privileged few.

But even Max, almost superhuman, could not hold out forever against overwhelming odds, and death came quietly to a contented man. To those who knew him, a friend has slipped away and the College has lost a dedicated servant. Others receive their honours in this world but the really deserving must wait until the next.

B.A.C. 3

The Society This year has seen the retirement of the Senior Fellow, Henry Cohen. He was elected to his fellowship in 1959 and in addition to his duties as College Lecturer in Engineering, he served the College for a number of years as Junior Bursar and Tutor for Research Students. He will continue to live in Cambridge and as a Life Fellow we can look forward to continuing to see him in the Combination Room and to benefiting from his fund of practical information on an enormous range of subjects.

Two of our other Life Fellows have continued to be busy. Sir Harold Bailey has brought to publication the last of a series of ten volumes begun in 1935. The series deals with the Central Asian language Khotanese and consists of texts with commentaries, a dictionary and treatises on various aspects of Khotan culture. Professor John Holloway undertook a round-the-world lecture tour in spring and-early summer 1984, with stops in Hong Kong (the Chinese University), four universities in New Zealand, USP at Suva Fiji, and three universities in Arizona and Idaho.

Dr Spearing spent the Michaelmas term as Visiting Professor of English at the University of Virginia. Dr Diggle published the second volume of his Oxford Classical Text of Euripides.

We are glad to report three promotions, one alas entailing a resignation, namely that of Dr Clive Ellory, Official Fellow and Lecturer in Physiology since 1975. Dr Ellory's distinction in his field has been recognized by his election to the Readership in Human Physiology at Oxford. He will there become a Fellow of Corpus Christi.

Dr George Cormack has been promoted to University Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy, and Dr James Jackson to Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences. Dr Jackson, a Bye-Fellow of the College, has also been elected to an Official Fellowship with effect from 1 October 1985. Many will have watched with interest his highly successful BBC 2 Horizon programme "The Earthquake Connexion" shown several times during 1984.

Dr Naomi Segal has had her book The Unintended Reader: Feminism and Manon Lescaut, accepted for publication by the Cambridge University Press. We also congratulate Dr Segal on her election to an Official Fellowship at St John's College with effect from I October 1986.

The College has gone some way towards making up the losses from the Fellowship. Dr. Malcolm Macleod was elected to a Bye-Fellowship in Engineering with effec't from 1 October 1984. Dr Macleod is a professional electronic engineer working with Cambridge Consultants in the Cambridge.Science Park. His main interests are in information technology and signal processing. We are most fortunate to have Dr Macleod join us and look forward to strengthened links with local industry. In Biochemistry we have very fortunately been able to appoint Dr Keith Johnstone, a newly appointed University Demonstrator and an expert in the biochemical processes affecting the ~ermination of spores.

Mr David Cebon, a native of Australia, was elected as a Fellow in Engineering with effect from I February 1985.

Mr Cebon was recently appointed to a University Assistant Lectureship in the Department of Engineering 4

and he specialises in the study of vibration, particularly that associated with the movement of heavy vehicles.

This year also saw the arrival of a bumper crop of Research Fellows, three in all. Dr Paula Durlach is an experimental psychologist who studies the processes by which animals learn. Dr Peter Haynes is an applied mathematician who has developed methods that allow him to study the waves in large scale flows; applications of this work include long-range weather forecasting and the dispersal of pollutants in the atmosphere. Mr Peter Swaab is working in the field of English literature and studies the poems of William Wordsworth.

E.R.O.

Andrew Dokett A speech delivered on the occasion of Sir Thomas Smith's Feast, 14th December 1984: The Form for the Commemoration of Benefactors, recited annually in the College Chapel, begins with these words: 'First of all must be mentioned with grateful memory Andrew Dokett, Rector of St Botolph's, Principal of St Bernard's Hostel, and .the first President, to whom is due the design of the foundation of the College, and to whose zeal, ability and prudence the successful establishment of the Foundation is mainly to be attributed.'

Of the origins and the early years of Andrew Dokett no record exists. He emerges from the shadows of time in 1439, as Vicar of St Botolph's, soon to become its Rector, and at the same time or soon after as Principal of St Bernard's Hostel, a looging-house for non-Collegiate students. On December 3rd 1446 he obtained from King Henry VI a charter of incorporation for a College under the title of the College of St Bernard. The site for which the College was destined, now occupied by St Catharine's, proved too small, and in the following year the King gave leave for the College to be refounded on the ground on which Old Court and Cloister Court now stand. But the interest of the Queen, Margaret of Anjou, had also been aroused . In the words of Thomas Fuller: 'The Queen, beholding her husband's bounty in building King's College, was restless in herself with holy emulation until she had produced something of the like nature, a strife wherein wives without breach of duty may contend with their husbands.' And so, in 1448, arose a new College, the Queen's College of St Margaret and St Bernard . And it is no hazardous conjecture that the patronage of Queen Margaret was due as much to the zeal, ability and prudence of Andrew Dokett as to the ambitions of the Queen.

The red rose gave place to the white, and a new Queen had ambitions to foster or to have fostered. In 1465 Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV, took the College under her patronage and ten years later granted its first statutes. Once more in Thomas Fuller's words:'The child thus come to the birth, there was no strength to bring forth, had not the skill of the midwife supplied the want of strength in the mother. I mean Andrew Dokett, for forty years first Master of this House ... who gathered much money from well-disposed people, to finish this College ...

A good and discreet man, who with no sordid but prudential compliance so poised himself in those dangerous times betwixt the successive Kings of Lancaster and York, that he procured the favour of both, and so prevailed with Queen Elizabeth that she perfected what her professed enemy had begun.'

He died in 1484, having lived to see his small foundation of 4 Fellows grow into a foundation of 17. He was buried in the College Chapel under a gravestone of grey marble. The brass which once covered the stone was described at the end of the 18th century: 'He is in a Doctor's Habit, but being continually trod on twice a day, as people go into the Chapel, it is no wonder that the strokes are worn away and that it is now almost a plain smooth piece of brass.' We can look no longer on that brazen effigy. Instead we must look to the outer arch of the College gateway, where a carved keystone presents the half-length figure of a Friar, with tonsured head, cassock and hood , severe in countenance, and holding in his right hand the charter of incorporation. There stands our first President, presiding still, in effigy of stone: Andrew Dokett, who died 500 years and a handful of days ago.

J.D.

Medieval studwork wall in room AI, with painted decorations.

R .D. H. W. Summer 1984.

Benefactions and Bequests Historical accident has brought it about that Queens' is one of the least well endowed Colleges in Cambridge. It is therefore with the greatest gratitude that the College receives gifts from Old Members. In this respect the past year has been quite exceptional, both in respect of the response to the Heritage Appeal and in respect of the special donations that have come to the College.

The Old Library of today, but what many Old Members will simply think of as "The Library", has been sadly short of space for some time to properly shelve the old volumes as they were catalogued. Mr Cyril Bibby (1932) recognized this need and gave £2,000 for new bookcases and shelving. Ultimately Dr Brian Callingham, our Pharmacology Fellow, discovered just what was needed, of all places, in a Victorian Chemist's shop in London. Properly restored these bookcases have been set along the walls in the Munro Room immediately below the Old Library. We are grateful to Dr Bibby as well for his gift of £2,000 to endow a book prize to be awarded annually in recognition of exceptional contributions to the welfare of the Library or to the general communal life of the College. It will be known as the Bibby Prize.

Basil John Prigmore M.A., M.Sc., D.I.C., C.Eng., FJ.E.E., who read Mechanical Sciences at Queens' in the late nineteen-thirties, died on 13 September 1984, bequeathing the bulk of his estate to the College, securities and cash to the value of about £250,000. It was Mr Prigmore's wish that first charge on the interest on this capital should be the establishment of scholarships for Members of the College reading Engineering. This has been done, and they will be known as Prigmore

Scholarships. The second charge on the income will be the improvement of the residential facilities of the College.

The College has also benefited this year from the generosity of another Old Member, William Herbert Colton ( 1918), a former Scholar of the College. Mr Colton died in 1972 and last year his wife died also. The College has now become a beneficiary of the William Herbert Colton Foundation set up by Mr Colton under his will. T,he Trustees have this year sent the College a sum of £30,000, with the expectation of sums in future years. It was Mr Colton's wish that his estate be used, at any rate in part, to foster the study of Mathematics. The College has therefore set up the Colton Fund from which will be paid a prize or scholarship in Mathematics. A second charge on the fund would be a Research Fellowship with preference being given to Mathematics or Science. A third charge would be the support of the Library.

There have also been during the year a number of gifts of volumes to the Library. These are reported separately by the Librarian.

In conclusion may I repeat how grateful we are to those who remember their College through gifts and benefactions. The College is having real difficulty in balancing its books at a time when student fees and grants - and therefore what we may charge - are rising much more slowly than inflation, and than the costs of running the College. It is gifts such as I have reported above and the massive support for the Appeal that I describe elsewhere, that in the long term will maintain not only the fabric of the College, but its academic standards that are the concern of us all.

E.R.O.

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The Queens' Heritage Appeal Last year I wrote of the structural weaknesses that had come to light in some of the older parts of the College, particularly in the Long Gallery wing in Cloister Court, and of the emergency repairs that had to be undertaken to avoid danger of collapse. By the time you read this every Old Member of the College for whom we have a current address should have received news of the Heritage Appeal that we have launched to raise ÂŁ500,000 towards the restoration of the older parts of the College.

We have my predecessor, Derek Bowett, as Chairman of the Appeal and Gordon Goodrich (1935) as VicePresident, supported by a strong Appeal Committee of Old Members. Maurice Scarr (1933) is running our Appeal Office. We have decided not to employ professional fund raisers and have ourselves been arranging a series of receptions in different parts of the country to which we have been inviting the Old Members in that area in order to explain the College's difficulties. Unfortunately, some Old Members do not Jive within convenient distances of any of the centres where we have been able to hold Queens' Receptions. Our contact with them has largely had to be by letter alone.

Those who have been able to attend the receptions will,

I think, agree that they are turning out to be exceptionally enjoyable occasions. It continues to amaze me how Queensmen, of both sexes and of many generations, immediately find so much in common. From my point of view, they provide a most agreeable opportunity of meeting many Old Members for the first time.

Our thanks are due to all those who have acted as hosts in arranging receptions in different parts of the country and indeed to those others who have offered to help in this way, but whose offers we were not able to take up.

We are deeply grateful to the following who have hosted Appeal Receptions up to the end of February 1985: M.R. Park (1952), Dr S.St.P. Slatter (1963), The Revd B.L. Hebblethwaite (Fellow), Sir Stephen Brown (1942), R .G. Ward (1963), R.B. Owen (1951), J .M. Riley (1950), Colonel D.B. Emley (1949), G.V. Warsop (1983), Professor J.T. Coppock (1947), Judge J.H.R. Newey (1941), P.J. Cox (1941).

At the time of writing (mid-February) all the indications are that the appeal is going well: we are close to ÂŁ150,000 from about 300 donations.

E.R.O.

Queens' Heritage Appeal Committee Old Members

Lord Allen of Abbeydale (1930-33) J. M. M. Banham (1959-62) P. F. Benton (I 955-58) M. J. D. Bown (1951-54) Sir Stephen Brown (1942-47) The Revd Professor H. Chadwick (Fellow 1946-58) R. Cowan (1948-50) P. J. Cox, QC (1941-47) J. E. Gordon (1958-61) R. Halstead ( 1945-48) I. M. Henderson ( 1944-46) R. W. D. Marques (1954-58)

M. H . F. Morley (1959-62) Sir Thomas Padmore (1928-31) M.R. Park (1952-60) J. M. Riley (1950-53) M. M. Scarr, GM (1933-36) J. W. Sutherland, CBE (1941-47) Lord Thomas of Swynnerton (1950-53) Sir John Vinelott (1946-48) D. A. Walker (1958-61) Sir George Waller (1929-32) N. K. S. Wills (1960-63) B. J . W. Winterbotbam (1940-43)

College The President - Professor E. J,l. Oxburgh Dr N. F. Hughes (1937- 39, 46-47) Dr B. A. Callingham Dr P. J. Wheatley The Revd B. L. Hebblethwaite (1961-63) Dr J. T. Gre!!n (1963-66) Dr J . M. Holmes (1967-70) Dr J . A. Jackson ()973-76) Mr R. G. Fentiman

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Contributions to the Heritage Appeal The College is most grateful to the following who have contributed to the Queens' Heritage Appeal. The list does not include those who have given their support through the American Friends of Cambridge University (listed separately below) or those who have contributed after February 1985. · *

These are friends of the College or relatives of members.

Mr. A. D . W. Abbot-Anderson Mr. J. Abbott Mr. P. Abraham Mr J. 0. Ackroyd Mr. P. M . Adorian Mr. H. C. Alexander Prof. R. E. Allsop Mr. l'f. A. S. Andrew Mr. A. Atkins Mr. R. E. Austin Mr. R. J. Bailey The Rt. Revd. P. J. Ball Mr. G. C. Band The Baring Foundation * Mrs. C. A. J. Barrington (C. A. J. Barrington) Mr. G. P. Barwood Mr. A. G. Bazeley Mr. A. G. M. Bean Prof. C. F. Beckingham Mr. H. C. Belk Mr. J. S. Beverly Mr. J. A. Booth Mr. T. R. Bowen Mr. C. M. Bown The Rev. Dr. B. I. Bradshaw Mr. C. J. Brady Mr. J. R. Branston Mr. B. C. Brazier Mr. J. Bromhead Mr. D. Broome Mr. W. H. Broughton The Rt. Revd. L. A. Brown Sir Stephen Brown Mr. T. G. Browne Mr. H. C. Burke Mr. M. H. Bushby Dr. P. J. G. Butler Judge N. M. Butter Mr. F. C. Campbell Mr. T. W. B. Camps Mr. D.R. Candlin Mr. G. R. Canner Mr. E. S. Capstick Mi. N. J. Carr Mr. L. I. Cartier Mr. A. Casells Dr. B. R. Cassell The Revd . Prof. H. Chadwick * Mr. P. L. Chambers Mr. N. A. Channing Mr. J. B. Chaplin Mr. J. A. Charles Mr. H. D. Chase Mr. L. V. Chilton Mr. P. J. Christian Mr. W. J. Church Mr. J. H. R. Churchill

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Mr. M. T. Clark Mr. G. W . Clarke Mr. N. D. Clarke The Rt. Revd. C. R. Claxton Mr. R. A. <;::ochrane Mr. J. D. Clayton Mr. P. G. Coleman * Mrs. R. Colenutt (R. Colenutt) Mr. D. A. Collin Mr. P. E. M. Conant Mr. T. A. C. Coningsby Mr. M. A. Conlon Mr. J. F. ·cooper Prof. J. T. Coppock Mr. N. de B. Corbin Dr. A. D. Cosh Mr. N. J. Cosh Col. H. E. M. Cotton Mr. R . Cowan Mr. J. W. Cowland Mr. M. G. Craddock Mr. M . L. K. Crowther The Revd. Canon G. C. Cutcher Dr. P. F. Dale Mr. R. L. Daniels Mr. R. T. G. Day Dr. J. Diggle Mr. N. Digney Mr. R. H. Dowsett Mr. W. G. Dufton Mr. K. N. B. Dunlop Mr. B. S. Dunn Mr. P. J. Dunnett Mr. A. J . Earl Mr. C. M. Edgar Mr. F. F. C. Edmonds Mr. G. J . Elliott Col. D. B. Emley Dr. D. W. Evans Mr. J. B. D . Evans Mr. S. W. H. W. Falloon Mr. C. B. Farr Mr. S. G. B. Farrant Mr. N. A. E. Farrow * Mrs. M. J. Fellingham Mr. J. R. H. Fisher Mr. F. K. Forrester Mr. J. R. Fowling Mr. J.M. Fox Prof. L. E. Fraenkel Mr. J. I. Francis Mr. A. C. Franks Mr. W. H. Fullerton Col. R. C. Gabriel Mr. D. N. Gallon Mr. J. W. Gardner Mr. G. B. Gasson

Mr. T. H. T. Gautby Mr. S. R. Gibson Mr. M. J. Gleed Mr. W. E. M: Godfrey Prof. F. Goldby Dr. A. M. Golding Mr. F. R. C. Goodall Mr. J.E. Gordon Mr. J. R. Gourlay The Revd. D. R. Graebe Mr. D. D. Grant Mr. A. I. Gregory The Revd. M. J. Grylls Mr. J. R. W. Gumpert Dr. P.A. Garbutt Mr. F. L. Hall Mr. A. W. Hart Mr. G. A. Hayter Sir Mark Heath Mr. A. C. Heeler Mr. I. M. Henderson Mr. F. Heyes Cdr. J. W. Hickman Mr. S. J. Hills Mr. P. G. Hooker Mr. C. J . D. Hooper Mr. D. C. Horton Mr. J. Howgego Mr. C. J. Huckstep * The Rt. Revd. Mgr. A. P. Hulme Dr. C.H. Hurst * Mr. M. Hynett Mr. F. M. Inns Mr. N. M. James Mr. N. F. Jamieson Mr. J. D. Jaques Mr. A. C. Jarrold Mr. P. J. Jarrold Mr. R. E. Jarrold Mr. F. P. Jenkin Dr. E. F . N. Jephcott * John Jarrold Trust Ltd Mr. D. A. Johnson Mr. M. I.Johnson Dr. I. H . D. Johnston Mr. F. G. B. Jones Dr. H. R. N. Jones Mr. D. Kalyanvala Mr. A. C. E. Kempson Mr. R. D. Kerr Mr. A. J. Keys Mr. R. G Keyworth Mr. J. W. Kidner Mr. R. King Dr. B. W. Kington Mr. D. A. Knight Mr. R. J. Knight Mr. J. L. B. Knott

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Mr. R. A. Kottler Mr. R.R. Lack Mr. J. B. Lamb Dr. D. R. Langslow Mr. J. G. Larkin Dr. D. S. Latchman Capt. M. F. Law Mr. P. G. Law Mr. C. J . Lawn Mr. C. Leach Mr. D. G. Lean Mr. J. A. Lebovitz Dr. A. M. Lester Mr. S. W. Lister Dr. M.A. N. Loewe Mr. J. S. Long Dr. K. E. Machin Mr. I. G. M. Mackley Mr. G. W. Macmahon Mr. E. C." S. MacPherson Mr. S. H. ~ainwaring Dr. J . G. Manners Mr. L. Manns Mr. J . M. Marley Mr. R. W. D. Marques Mr. E. G. Marquis Mr. D. J. W. Marsh Mr. M. G. Martindale Mr. G. D . H. E. Massy Mr. G. V. J . Maxted Mr. P. C. D. May Mr. C. J. Maynard * Mr. R. F. McKnight (J. C. McKnight) The Revd. Canon A. F. Mellows The Rev. J. W. M. Miller Mr. A. J. Mills Dr. J.M. Mitchell Mr. M. H. F. Morley Mr. R . T. L. Mowll Mr. J. D. Mulvaney Mr. D. N. E. Myers * National Westminster Bank PLC The Rt. Revd. J . E. L. Newbigin Mr. G. R . Newey Mrs. I. K. M. Newey Judge J . H. R. Newey Dr. F. H. Newth Mr. J. C. Norris Mr. R . A. North Mr. 0 . Nugent Mr. J . E. H. Orr-Ewing The Reverend W. H. Oswald Mr. D. S. Owen Prof. E. R. Oxburgh Sir Thomas Padmore Mr. S. A. Pai Mr. M. R . Park Mr. J . G. Parry Mr. C. M. Parsons

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Mr. D. I. Pearce Sir John Peel Dr. F. H. Perring Mr. G. J. Phillips Mr. V. R. Phillips The Rt Revd. K. H. Pillar Mr. E. J. Pitt Prof. M. L. V. Pitteway Mr. P. A. Pool Mr. W. H. L. Porter Mr. C. D. B. Potter The Revd. A.G. Pouncy Mr. K. T. Powell Mr. N. R. D. Powell Mr. R. M. Price Mr. J.C. Pyper Mr. R. C. Quirk Mr. A. D. Reddrop Dr. C. H. Reynolds Mr. Q. A. Rigby Mr. J. M. Riley Mr. G. H. L. Rimbault Dr. M. B. V. Roberts Mr. R . F. Roberts Mr. J. S.S. Rowlands Mr. G. C. Roy Mr. G. H. Rutherford Prof. P. C. Ryall Major R . S. Ryder Dr. M. R. de C. Sadler Mr. T. C.H. Sale Mr. J.E. A. Samuels Dr. D. B. Sattelle Mr. H. M. Saunders Mr. N. J. Saunders Dr. J. D . Scarr Mr. M . M . Scarr Mr. R . D. Scholes Revd. Canon C. J. F. Scott Mr. M. F . G. Selby Mr. N. G. F. Sharp Mr. M. J. Shaw Prof. G. C. Shephard Mr. W. J. Sibree Mr. D. A. Sinclair Mr. S. St. P. Slatter Mr. A. E. Smith Mr. B. P. Smith The Revd. C. W. Smith Mr. E. A. Smith * Mr. L. H. Smith (J. R. Smith) Mr. P. E. :smith Dr. P. F. Smith Mr. R . I. Smith Mr. D. C. Snow Mr. E. D. Sopher Mr. S. B. Squire Mr. R. H. E. Steele Mr. C. Stephens

Mr. M: V. Sternberg Mr. B. C. Stiles Mr. H. N. Sturcke Mr. N . S. Suffield-Jones Mr. J. W. Sutherland Mr. R. D. Sutton Mr. J. C . Taylor Dr. P. L. Taylor Mr. R.H. Temple Mr. M. T. Terry Prof. A. C. Thackray Dr. D. M. Thompson Mr. J. D. Thompson Mr. R. B. Thorpe Dr. G. R. Thwaites The Revd. B. D. Treharne M1. P. G. Trevett Mr. A. J. Trott Mr. W.R. F. Urquhart Mr. J . H. Vallat Mr. M. Vavrinek Mr. C. N. Vokins Mr. D. J . P. Wade The Revd. Canon C. B. Walker Mr. G. S. Waller Mr. B. J. Walmsley Capt. R. Walmsley The Ven. D. Walser * Mrs. A. L. Walters (G. Purcell, T he Rev. C. F. Walters R. Walters) Dr. M. H. C. Warner Mr. C. P. Warren Dr. P. T. Warren Mr. I. J. Webber Dr. R. R. Weber Mr. R. W. Welbourn Mr. T. D. West Dr. P. J. Wheatley Mr. R. H. Wheeler Mr. T. H. White Dr. J.E. A. Whiteaway Dr. H . L. K . Whitehouse Dr. R . W. Whitworth Mr. J. G. Wibberley Dr. A . S. Wigfield Dr. R. M. Williamson Mr. E. C. H. Wilson * Dr. C. E. M Winn (Dr. J . M. Winn) Mr. J . P. Winn Mr. B. J. W. Winterbotham Mr. F. J. Woodley Mr. A. Woodward Mr. R . J . Woodward Mr. A. D. Wright Mr. N.C. Wright Dr. H. R. Youngman

The College further wishes to express its gratitude to the following who are continuing to support the College through covenants made to earlier Appeals and subsequently renewed. We believe that this list includes all existing covenants: W. S. Adam Lord Allen of Abbeydale R. E. Allsop N. K. Alston A. L. Angel M. D. Anson C. Archard E. C. Ashby E. B. Atkinson J. Austin B. J. Aylett D. W. Backhouse Sir Ranulph Bacon S. H. Bailey A. Baines D. K. Baines M. P. B. Bale R. S. Balme G. C. Band J. M. M. Banham W. H. Banks D. L. Barker D. G. A. Bateson C. D. Bayles R. C. W. Baynham B. P. Bazell Sir James Beament G.JJean D. D . Belchamber P. C. Bibby N. Bidder H. A. Bird P. N. Blackaby D. W. Bowell M. J. D. Bown G. M. Bowstead T . Bracewell B. Bradshaw D . Bradshaw H. Bradshaw J . R. Branston P. T. Brass D. R . Briggs C. M. Broadbent P.A. Brocklehurst S. Brooks .

M. W. Brown P. W. A. Brown R. A. G. Brown Sir Stephen Brown S. S. Brown T. G. Browne E. B. Bull Dr J. N. Bulmer H . Burke A.S.F. Butcher B. A. Callingham J. T. Cast R. A. Chalmers D. A. Chamberlain H. B. Champion E. W. Chanter J. A. Charles J. L. Chater A. E. Checksfield L. V. Chilton W. J . Church A. Clark G. W. Clarke D. J. Claxton B. R. Cleave R. G. Cogliatti H. Cohen A. A. Cole J. A. Coleman V. Coleman D.A.Collin

D. J . Collinson J. M. Collinson M.A. Conlon N. S. Cooper J . W. Cowland P. J. Cox M. Craddock G. W. Craig G. P. Crawley P. J . Cresswell M. J . Cuthbertson D. C. Damant N. S. Davidson Dr. P. J. Dennis J . Downs P. J . Doyle P. L. Doyle D. L. Duffett L.A. Duffield A. J. Earl I. D. Edge F. F. C. Edmonds D. T. Edwards S. F. Eliot G. J. Elliott I. D. Elliott M. Emerson S. Erskine Dr D. W. Evans D. W. Evans P. Evans H. M. C. Every J.M . Fall M. D. P. Fasey G. Findley J . R. H. Fisher R.H. Flemming J. I. Francis M. T. Frank J . F. Friend J. N. Fuller-Shapcott R. C. Gabriel M. Gardiner R. G. Garfield J. R. Garnham C. Gent D. C. Gladwell F. Goldby D . D . Grant C. J. M. Graves A. R. Green J . T . Green G. B. Greenough I. W. Griffiths R. I. Griffiths W. R. Griffiths N. C. Grimsha w M. R. Gritten P. Hagenbuch J . W. Haig- Ferguson S. Halsall R. Halstead J .E. Hanson K. J . Hard M. Harmer M. C. Harries R. Harrison A. W. Hart W. M. Hartley R. E. D. Harvey-Samuel J. N. Hatterley C. D. Heath D. P. Herbert A. D. H. Herbert-Hingston J. D. Hewitt B. L. Higgins E. H. Higham

B. A. Hill R. L Hills M.A. Hilton E. S. Hoare M. W. Holdgate P. G. Hooker J. H. L. Hopkin R. Hopkin G. Horrocks D. C. Horton N. F. Hughes D.R. G. Hunt J. A. Jackson R. 0. Jackson N. Jakeman D. K. M. James H. James Dr N. M. James M. F. Jameson J. D. Jaques C. J . A. Jephcott G. L. Johnson D.R. Karlin G. K. Kay G. H. Kearley C.R.F. Kemp C. A. Kenyon G. T. Kenyon P. F. King J. G. Kirtley J. E. Kitcatt R. Kitchen D. A. Knight R. J. Knight M. H. Knott H. R. Lambert M. F. Law M. F. M. Lawfield F. W. Lawn C. Leach K. F. M. Leadbeater Sir George Wilton Lee N. H. W. Lee P. W. Lee D. A. Lester D. J. D. Lewis G. A. H. Lewis S. G. Loch F. R. Love l. J . Luxton A.H. Lyons A. L. Lyster R. F. McBride R. S. McConnell K. E. Machin K . Mackenzie A. D. Macnair B. J. Main J. G. Manners K. H. Mantell C. H. Marshall D. L. Martin J . D. C. Martin M. H. Massy R. R. Matthews C. H. Maynard A. P. Miller D. P. Miller B. J. Mitchell W. S. Monkhouse R. D. Morrish C. W.R. Moseley R. V. Mosseri J . A. S. Mowat B. W. Napier P. Nelson J. H. Newberry

J. H. R. Newey R. A. Newley A. Newman J. North Dr W. R. S. North A. H. Nutter J. Nutter P. W. O'Brien T . D. O'Donoghue R. M. O'Rorke P.A. Owen Sir Thomas Padmore J. Pang K. S. Parmar D . R . Parry J. D. Pearson R. L. Peel R. F. Pemberton F.S. Perry M . V. Phythian-Adams

Dr J . T. H. Pick K. G. Pickles G. E. Pipe Prof M. Pitteway D. C. M. Platt J.M . Polden W. H. L. Porter C. J. Pountain R. Pownall-Blakeborough A. C. R. Price D. G. Price T. J. Proctor D. K. H. Prosser R. J. Rackham N. McK. Rae G. N. Randall P. A. Randall C. M. Rees A. T. Reid J . L. Reide E. Reynolds T. Reynolds J . A. V. Richard J . M. Riley J. S. C. Riley-Smith 1. 0. Roberts H. T. Robins M. C. Robinson P. K. Robinson R. P. Robinson G. K. Rochester I. W. Rodgers R. C. Rogers A. J. Rooth M. B. Rose S. D. Rose H. E. V. Ross J . S. S. Rowlands G. Rowley G. C. Roy Rev J . C. Royos A. A. Rumbelow W. F. Russell R. A. Russian A. Sabourin E. H . Sale J.E. A. Samuels J. P. Sanders M. M. Scarr R. J. Seath J. K. N . Shah J . A. 0. Shand T. M. Shankland R. F. H. Sharpley J. M. Shepherd P. D. Shilston J. Silverlight

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S. G. Simons J. L. Smeal!

E. J. G. Smith F. G. Smith P. G. Smith P. G. Smith A. P. Southern Brig C. E. H. Sparrow G. E. Spear A. J.M. Spencer J. Spencer P. D. Spencer M. C. Spink P. Stanton Prof P. G. Stein R. J. Stephens B. J. Stoodley D. T. Sutcliffe J. W. Sutherland R. T. Sutherland

R. U. Sutton A.G. Swales N. S. G. Swan A.H. Sykes J.C. Talbot J. G. Talbot K. R. Tatchell G. Tee S. C. Telford M. T. Terry D. F. E. Thallon D. A. Thomas D. E. Thomas Rev D. G. Thomas R. L. Thorn D.R. Tilley G. M. Tingle W. Tipler G. H . Tolson R. W. Tolson

K. Tomkins R. P. Tuckett G. R. D. Tudhope A. J.M. Tuke W. M . G. Tunbridge A. S. Turner D. M. Turner R. S. Tuson H. B. Tweed J. L. L. Underhill F. Upton M. Vaurinek R. S. Viner C. N. Vokins P. J. Walker Sir George Waller R. A. F. Wallis B. J. Walmsley Prof G. N. Ward R. G. Ward

A. Watkins C. P. Watkinson P. G. Watson G. G. C. Weaks R. J. Wellings P. J. Wheatley W. F. Whimster 8. H. White D. Williams D. C. H. Williams M. Williams F. Wilson 8. J. W. Winterbotham J. R. Wood 8 . J. Wright I. R. Wright R. A. Wyke K. S. Young

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Heritage Appeal Donations from America The following have generously supported the College through donations to the American Friends of Cambridge University: Dr. David I. Atkinson Dr. David G. I. Kingston Mr. Nigel M. Bark Professor George Kirk Dr. Robert A. Barron Mr. John A. Koskinen Mr. Richard L. Bent Mr. Henry Lesser Professor John M. Blum Mr. J. Michel Marcoux Mr. George H. Brown Mr. Donald R. Melville Dr. Rex Brown Mr. John S. Meny Mr. Arlan P. Dohrenburg Norton Company Fndn Inc Mr. James F. R. Edwards Mr. Martin Page Mr. John W. Findlay Mr. Albin Salton Mr. J. Stuart Glass Mr. Evan Sloan Mr. Harold Goldwhite Mr. Arnold Slyper Professor Edward Gordon Mr. D. J. Steel Dr. H. Peter Gray Mr. Rodney G. Ward Mr. Joseph Hertzberg Mr. Arnold Yates Mr. Brian KileÂŁÂŁ Dr. James J. Zwolenik

American Friends of Cambridge University Members of the College resident in the United States may like to be reminded that donations to the College can be made in ways which render them deductible from the donor's taxable income.

Donations made to the American. Friends of Cambridge University are deductible for United States income tax purposes as provided by law. The American Friends of Cambridge University is a not-for-profit, District of Columbia corporation. The United States Treasury Department issued a ruling to the American Friends dated 7 April 1976, which included the following paragraph: "Contributions made to you are deductible by donors as provided in Section 170 of the Code. Bequests, legacies, devises, transfers or gifts to or for your use are deductible for Federal estate and gift tax purposes under the provisions of Sections 2055, 2106 and 2522 of the Code."

Donations to the American Friends should be sent to the President, Mr. Stephen Price (Queens' 1976) at P.O. Box 7070, Arlington, Virginia 22207. They should be stated to be towards the following grant on the current American Friends' list: 'Grant I0/73 Queens' College' 10

The Students It is pleasing to be able to report another successful year academically; the undergraduates achieved very good results in the examinations in 1984 and again the College figured high in the league tables drawn up in their various ways to compare academic success among Colleges in Cambridge. It was particularly pleasing that Queens' students were very high indeed in the list of Firsts in several Triposes and undoubtedly the College is now gaining a strong reputation in Cambridge of having first class students. This is of course as it should be.

Our applications continue to run at a very high level and we figure amongst those Colleges who have the highest number of applicants per place. This allows us the luxury of choice in making our decisions on admission.

It also gives us the painful privilege of having to choose the most gifted from among our applicants and of having to reject many who are worthy of a place. Queens' still interviews every applicant and is probably the only College which does so at present. We attach particular weight to those interviews as well as to the reports which we receive from schools. It is that evidence which we weigh very heavily along with academic achievement when making our selections. Fortunately, many of those we believe should get to Cambridge and whom we would wish to have taken, do get picked up via the Intercollegiate Pool by other Colleges. Undoubtedly there are many students who apply to Cambridge, to Queens' and to other Colleges, who were they admitted could easily survive the course. Unfortunately there are simply not enough places for us to take all those who are capable of achieving a Cambridge degree and we are forced into selecting only the best.

Changes in Cambridge admissions procedures are still undergoing discussion and it is inevitable that there will be change. It has been decided that the Cambridge Colleges Examination in its present form will not be held after November 1985. Although it has not been firmly decided what will replace it, it seems highly likely that a Sixth Term Examination will be held in May each year prior to admission in the following October (and we expect it to be set for the first time in 1987 for admission in

and therefore will be an independent assessment, very much as 'A' levels are at present. However, Cambridge Colleges when making decisions on admission will have access to scripts and markbooks which will give them greater insight into a candidate's ability than we at present have with the bare grades of 'A' and 'S' levels.

These are outline proposals and it is not yet clear what will emerge in detail. However, it seems virtually certain that Cambridge will proceed without its fourth or seventh term examination and will move towards a system of offers of places conditional on gaining grades in certain examinations. Many of us believe that this is a step in the right direction and will make Cambridge accessible to all.

It is an exciting and interesting period of change and one which will benefit both applicants and the University.

J.T.G.

1987).

Applicants who apply before taking their 'A' levels will be interviewed and may be given a place conditional on gaining grades at 'A' level and perhaps 'S' level or Sixth Term Examination Papers. It is not the intention to set conditions on all three examinations but that conditions be given on those examinations which are appropriate to a candidate's educational background. Thus a pre 'A' level applicant might be asked to get two grade 'A's and a grade 'B' in his' A' level examinations and a certain grade in a Sixth Term Examination Paper in one particular subject. Another candidate may be asked to gain two grade 'A's and a grade 'B' at 'A' level together with a grade I in a Special Paper in a particular subject. Applicants who apply post 'A' level will still be considered on the basis of their 'A' level and 'S' level (and maybe even Sixth Term Examination) results already obtained.

The Sixth Term Examination will be administered by one of the GCE Boards (probably the Cambridge Board or the Oxford and Cambridge Board) and will be a public examination available to anyone in the country. It will be monitored, administered, set and marked by the Boards

The BBC 1ake a closer look at Old Court.

The BBC Last year I reported on the filming which took place during the last academic year for a documentary series about the College. The BBC crew stayed with us until late June 1984 and indeed returned briefly at the beginning of the Michaelmas Term 1984 in order to follow some of the students whom they had seen in the admissions procedures a year previous as well as to take a few shots which they had missed earlier. It now seems probable that the series will not be screened until the Autumn of 1985 and, with that knowledge, a large number of Fellows (and the President himself) have applied for leave of absence during the academic year 1985-86! No doubt we shall all draw our own conclusions from what we see.

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College Expeditions The College Expedition Fund and the Golden Jubilee Fund supported two expeditions in 1984, the Coastal Cordillera Botanical Survey and the Andes Health Project.

The Coastal Cordillera Botanical Survey, unfortunately reduced to three members, left for Venezuela on 11 August 1984. A week was spent in Caracas, where equipment was purchased and permits obtained from the relevant authorities. The expedition then left for the peninsula de Paria. A base was establi~hed on th~ coast to which access was by boat and from which excursions were made into the mountains to collect plants. Investigations around the coast revealed that deforestation is not, at present, a serious threat to.thefor~sts of the pe~nsuia. On returning to Caracas the collections were dned m the National Her barium and are currently being identified by Dr J. A. Steyermark in Missouri. The findings will be published in an official report. The expedition retu.rned _to the UK early in October, having successfully fulfilled its objectives.

When the members of the 1984 Andes Health Project arrived at the Cusichaka Valley near Cusco in Peru they were told "The Health Post is not working!". This was sadly confirmed by the friendly Promotore de Salud, near whose house camp was set up: the expedition was compelled to change their original objectives of assessing the work and impact of the primary health .~re programme in the remote vaJley of 180 scattered fam1hes.

By carrying out an interview survey a great deal was learned about the communities and health in the valley and some reasons for the collapse of the programme were discovered. Many were obvious: the geography was unsuitable, the police suspected that the health bank account belonged to the terrorist organisation 'El Sandera Luminosa', the Promotores were not paid and had land to farm. There were also deepset intercommunity rivalries and a total lack of Government support and supervision. Despite this, Javier, the health worker, still treated the campesinos in his house and, as a result, they were more a ware of the importance of good health. A great deal was learned about health and development and the expedition to Peru concluded with an ~nforgetta.ble visit to a health programme in the northern Jungle region of Rio Marafi.on. There, a large system of promotores operate with the backing of the Indians who belie~ed i! to be part of their struggle for education, self-determmatlon and land rights.

I am pleased to say that grants from the Funds have already been approved for two expeditio~s in 1985. A group of six students plan an expedition to the Ecuadorian Andes in order to carry out a thermal balance study on the Caldao glacier in El Altar. The study will equate surface ablation and net energy income to the glacier surface and is interesting because of the particularly unusual climatic conditions which are not fou~d on high latitude glaciers. In addition this pr~ject will investigate the formation of dirt cones followmg up a theory put forward by an earlier Queen~'. expedi~ion to Spitsbergen in 1978. The other expedition which the Funds will support in 1985 is an expedition to Kenya of three students who will be carrying out field work on the antenatal care of Kenyan women. It is a project in association with the Department of Community Medicine at the University Hospital of Wales.

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It is encouraging to see that the formation of these Funds has increased awareness among students of the potential of travel: undoubtedly, although the support which these funds can give is as yet meagre, they have been instrumental in encouraging students. As always, I am happy to give anyone details of the Funds should they wish to contribute.

J.T.G.

Round the World in Eighty Days Lecture tours abroad, I have always modestly thought more educative for me than for them. In spending a fortnight at the Chinese University, Hong Kong, I g~ve quite a lot of lectures, but Jess formal contacts with students, easily built up, soon showed _me how remarkably gifted they were. There was also time to see the incredible Caruso-gymnasts of the Peking Opera, and to learn that Hong Kong includes mile after mile of lonely sea-mountain-forest walking, with a sub-tropical birdlife, and that Chinese people must be the neatest kitchengardeners on earth.

Yet what a contrast the city parts of Hong Kong made, to spacious, spectacular New Zealand! Here I lectured busily to student audiences in four universities, gave three broadcast talks (two on my current research) and spoke to a famous Wellington literary society on Victorian London. A very much alive, but also relaxed, welcoming and I thought happy country - climate, landscape and the pace of life all help. In my free time I bone~ up on those sophisticated ocean mariners the Polynesians, on ten-foot-high flightless moa-birds (made extinct by Maori hunters, c.1500), on the only surviving dinosaur (New Zealand has it, eighteen inches long), a~d on the strange, once predator-free New Zealand environment: through which I travelled some 2,000 miles by road or train, to see volcanoes, glaciers, vast forests, bird reserves, the albatross colony, and an apple named after my father-in-law.

In Fiji, a very happy and relaxed discuss.ion ~es~ion with the Faculty relaxed still more, when I politely mv1ted a lecturer who came late, to come up to a seat near the front - but it was the tea lady. Fijians all have beautiful laughs. They also have spectacular thunderstor~s whi~h our (motor-car sized) departing aircraft dodged mm?lY m and out of. Los Angeles airport seems about the size of Kent, and is a wonderful place to have passed through, or better, outside. The University of Arizona at Tucson has magnificent campus, made so by grand displays of the giant cactus (up to 40 feet high) that make this part of the Arizona Desert really a luxuriant cactus jungle. Here, as at Northern Arizona University, and Idaho State at Pocatello there was much academic liveliness, keen discussio~s and questions, goqd talk with Faculty members and students, and also a chance to see picturesque local oddments like the G_rand Canyon, Idaho lava fields, Grand Tetons mountams (where you can buy a suitably-inscribed T-shirt), Arizona meteorcrater a kilometre across and about 700 feet deep (the first moon-men trained there), and the stony melancholy of the Indian reservations. Rocketing home over the jet.:. black Greenland mountains, and then Cape Wrath, down to the flowering cherries and trim gardens of Gatwick, and Cambridge, brought quite a few letters to answer.

J.H.

Sir Arthur Armitage 1916 - 1984 The name of Arthur Armitage is indissolubly bound up with Queens', the college where he was an undergraduate, Tutor, President, and Honorary Fellow. The strong face with its powerful lines spoke at once for his extraordinary capacity for shouldering multifarious responsibilities. He had enormous energy and a constant sense of forward momentum. Yet with all the burdens that he carried, it is impossible to remember an occasion when he was seriously fussed. He always made time for golf or tennis (where he could wield a useful racket) or for watching cricket at Fenners, where there might well be friends in the Law Faculty with whom he would enjoy the higher gossip. Queens' owes much to the wise and continuing influence of Humphrey Cripps. It also knows that his regard for Arthur Armitage had much to do with the benefaction which has so enlarged the college's facilities and accommodation. He was not only a shrewd and far-sighted President who thought big and helped others to think big, but also a masterful teacher of Law (in which he was willing to cover a remarkable range of subjects).

The long catalogue of his pupils is one of rare distinction.

In the House of Lords, the Inns of Court, the Law Society, and university faculties of Law up and down the country, generations of pupils recall his vigorous supervisions with their potent intellectual and indeed physical energy. He taught people with his arms and legs as well as with his mind and tongue. You could emerge at the end of your hour with a few chance bruises on your shins, but also with high exhilaration in your mind. The enjoyment of his lucid lectures on Tort or Criminal Law was strikingly enhanced by one's constant anxiety that as he swung precariously round a pillar of the podium, he was about to crash to the ground. His pupils have always been aware of being a privileged elite whose members have loved to exchange hilarious anecdotes and affectionate mimicry of his highly individual style. The news of his sudden death on 1 February brought to the throats of many friends a lump which could not be suppressed.

Born a Pennines' man and to the end of his days consciously remaining so, he was educated at Oldham, Queens' and Yale before being called to the bar at the Inner Temple, where he was ultimately to be made an Honorary Bencher. But to list the institutions which educated him, and the row of high distinctions he gained, would be misleading if it were to be supposed that he was an institutional product. One of the paradoxes of the man was that he was an authentic original, very independent, utterly unlike an organisation man; yet at the same time his genius was to use an acute legal mind to make complex societies and academic institutions work, not least when serious difficulty or even disruption threatened. His appetite for hard work was voracious; but he had also a positive zest in sailing into the eye of a storm, into situations which were taxing and challenging, where the necessary decision was sure to be unpopular, or where emotional attitudes and vested interests made people fear the application of rationality or despair of a cool

appraisal. It seemed natural for Whitehall to look to him to sort out the difficulties when Tony Crosland had created too many teacher training colleges, or when the maximum weight carried by a lorry axle had become politically overheated, or when an authoritative chairman was required for the Social Security Advisory Committee. The list of public bodies on whi~h he served is long.

'Cool' is not the most natural epithet for his mind.

There was in his make-up a powerful ingredient of impatience and excitability, emotional qualities which (in part as a result of his war experience as an army major) he was able so to harness and control that they become incomparable assets. Among other things they contributed to his capacity to pilot an academic body into the harbour of a wise decision. He always had an eye for consequences, and was as good a chairman as one could find anywhere. As President of his College, as ViceCha~cellor here and then at Manchester, as chairman whether of the Governors of the Leys School or of the committee of Vice-Chancellors, he was immediate in his grasp of the essential problem to be solved. He would see the decision needed and, firmly but very courteously, would direct the argument to the goal. And were some rash speaker to take the argument off at a tangent, those Homeric eyebrows would so descend that, though the speaker could still see him, it became mountingly uncertain that he could still see the speaker. When the excursion into the intellectual countryside was over, the man might be met either by the Big Smile of affectionate incredulity, which somehow preserved the speaker's dignity by implying that he had only been flying a kite for the fun of the thing, or, on rarer occasions, by the Big Groan, as if to say 'please don't take us down that blind alley.'

Positions of power and authority were naturally accorded to him, but in the exercise of power he exercised great restraint. He could combine giving a strong lead with a sensitivity to consensus. Over those inclined to disagree (though he might not like it) he did not ride roughshod . Indeed in the handling of business he could be so direct as to be disconcerting. Nothing was more abhorrent to him than deviousness. As an administrator his approach was that of a lawyer weighing up the contentions of the parties and then bringing a judicious and judical mind to bear.

He was not so impartial as not to mind if (quod-absit) his college were being defeated on the cricket-field, or whether his pupils were successful to the level of their capacity. Never was there a man more dedicated to the honour of the institution he served, whether Law Faculty or College or University. Woe betide any colleague who might imply that one of his pupils was less than satisfactory. He reserved the right to correct his own. He kept a lifelong interest in everything they did: every name remembered, every career instantly recalled. Individuals mattered intensely to him, and if you were chatting with him at a party there was never a moment when he was gazing over your shoulder to see if someone more interesting had arrived.

As defending counsel he was never less than eloquent.

He could be remarkably generous to colleagues needing help, at times almost quixotically so, and stood up for those he felt not to be getting a fair crack of the whip. He vigorously supported the department of Criminal Science and the ¡very existence of the Institute of Criminology 13

owes him a decisive debt. The same is true of Pharmacology.

Other universities liked to invite him as an external examiner because be was so sensible and fair. Relentless in purging the draft question-papers of colleagues interested exclusively in candidates likely to get a First, he took special pains to be fair to the weak. I recall him discussing with me how he should mark a Tripos answer by an undergraduate who supposed a lampoon to be some sort of boat. He decided to mark it on the assumption that it was what the candidate thought it was.

No portrait would be right which omitted his handling of the painful era of student power and staff politics. He could hardly help feeling hurt when even in his own beloved Queens' a handful of undergraduates, after being splendidly entertained in the Lodge, could mindlessly bite the hand that fed them. He was by nature a conservative with a small c but far from inflexible. He never attended a party without being sure where the exit was; and the same held good for his handling of people determined on a confrontation or who felt that anyone must necessarily be a reactionary if he asked what might happen after the revolution had brought the old world crashing in ruins.

Even through the worst of the troubles, he was an endless optimist; but that is not to say he lost no sleep.Middleaged dons demanding the surrender of this or that tradition or useful power worried him much more than undergraduates who, given time and patience, constituted no real threat to the university's survival. 'You know' (he once remarked) 'I don't think some of those people realise that if they are not very careful, they will get what they are asking for.' At Manchester initial attempts at provocation and confrontation by a vocal minority left him wonderfully unmoved, and he serenely led that university into an extraordinary programme of expansion in buildings, in student numbers (increased by a third during his time), and in the merger of the Rylands and University libraries to create one of the greatest in the land. The 1975 knighthood was a deeply fitting recognition; so also were the several honorary degrees conferred on him.

In 1974 he became Chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors at a critical time. It was the year of ¡unprecedented inflation, the Barber Boom, and a real possibility that one or more universities would suddenly . become insolvent and unable to pay salaries. Should the committee sound off public warnings, thereby bringing the embasrrassing consequence that bills were presented earlier than would otherwise be the case and precipitating the catastrophe everyone sought to avert? Armitage persuaded almost all his colleagues to remain calm and quiet and, however exciting the cliff-hanger behind the scenes, to present a brave face of total confidence. By the happy coincidence of a delay in salary rises and much higher rates of interest suddenly becoming available on reserve balances, everyone got through and he turned out to be right. It was a close run thing; had he not been there, it would not have done.

A deeply serious man for whom the Church came to stand for matters of increasing personal as well as social significance, he was unendingly funny. One of his strengths as an administrator lay in his insuppressible humour and sense of the absurd. Worried council members or members of his college governing body would find their anxieties set at rest by his infectious chuckle. Among his more endearing, if hazardous 14

mannerisms, was his habit, at the conclusion of some splendid anecdote told by him or to him, of taking an enormous step backwards, regardless of who or what might be there. Friends 'in the slips' used to reach out to field the falling standard lamps, and in the Athenaeum more than one diminutive Lord of Appeal in Ordinary has been seen unceremoniously jumping for his life.

Arthur Armitage was a man of will and energy controlled by refined sensitivity. Naturally born to authority, he exercised power with self-discipline and inspired colleagues with a strong bond of cheerful affection. If one needed to get mountains moved, he was the man to go and see. But he also had charity. From the Presidency of his royal and ancient college he moved on to shoulder heavier responsibilities and to play a distinguished public role. But no institution ever evoked in him a more passionate love and loyalty.

Henry Chadwick, Emeritus Regius Professor of Divinity Reprinted with permission from The Cambridge Review, Vol. 105, No. 2282, ppl81-2. ¡

Andrew Doket Information about And rew Doket's life is disappointingly scarce. We know nothing of his background, early life or education. Two ot her Queensmen of the 1480s shared that surname (Doket, Dogket, Dogett, Dokett, Dukett - spelling was not considered important in the fifteenth century) and may have been relations, but their histories are equally obscure. Andrew Doket is first recorded as the vicar of St Botolph's church in the mid 1430s; the living was then in the gift of Corpus Christi college, but we do not know if he was a Corpus man. By the middle of the following decade he was Principal of St Bernard's hostel, one of the numerous student lodging houses in medieval Cambridge; there were scarcely any colleges then.

He was clearly an energetic and ambitious man. He owned property in Cambridge. He may have founded St Bernard's hostel, but was certainly responsible for altering and enlarging the buildings there to make it one of the largest and best equipped hostels in the town. His incumbency at St Botolph's was marked by a substantial programme of building and improvements to the church.

Nor was he satisfied by this: in December 1446 he obtained a royal charter from Henry VI to found a college named after St Bernard on land now occupied by St Catharine's college. Before building could begin there, the ever-alert Doket procured a better site next to the river, on which his college was refounded in 1447. It only remained for Henry's eighteen year old queen, Margaret of Anjou, to lend her name to the college the following year.

Ninety years after Doket's death another collegemaker, John Caius, was among those who believed Queens' to be "the most glorious work of him alone", although he skilfully enlisted the help of others. The king and queen gave support in the form of charters and endowments. Two prominent townsmen, Richard

Andrew and John Morris, helped Doket to acquire the sites for the colleges. They were his parishioners at St Botolph's, and a third parishioner, the master mason Reginald Ely, was the architect of the earliest buildings at Queens'.

As President, Doket steered the college through its early years, securing benefactions, winning the patronage of the Yorkist queen Elizabeth Wood ville, and procuring a set of statutes from her to regulate college life. At the same time he was cautiously advancing his own career in the church, succeeding to a series of important ecclesiastical positions but without attaining the highest offices. Perhaps he was not personally ambitious enough.

He was not a pluralist like . so many contemporary churchmen, who held several offices simultaneously to increase their income and influence; each post Doket held was resigned when he took up a new one.

We know nothing of his government of Queens'; such records survive only from 1484 onwards. We do know that he left the college well endowed and prosperous; mercifully perhaps, he did not live to see Henry VIl's seizure of Richard Ill's great benefactions to Queens' following Richard's death at the battle of Bosworth. In his will Doket nominated a successor whom the fellows were expected to elect; such was the measure of his influence that the fellows did so dutifully. The will also directed them to commemorate his death each year with a service in the chapel, there to say prayers for his soul's eternal rest. That rite was abandoned at the Reformation, and the five hundredth anniversary of Doket's death slipped by almost unnoticed recently. If more were known about him, he might not have to suffer such undeserved neglect, for he was the true founder of Queens' in all but name.

J.D.Twigg

History of the College I am currently writing a history of the college and am looking for documents in manuscript concerning the modern history of Queens', to augment the printed sources and college archives. Letters, diaries and unpublished memoirs would be particularly useful. The older such documents are, the better, but I am interested in anything written before the mid 1970s. If any member of Queens' has access to such material, or knows where it may be found, I should be grateful if they would write to me at Queens' with details. Any material that appears in the book wilf of course be duly acknowledged.

J.D.T.

The Fabric We try to have one major project on the fabric each Long Vacation. In 1984 the task was the restoration ofroom Al on the ground floor or A staircase in Old Court. This

staircase was part of the very first building to be erected in 1448. It has been suggested that A staircase might have housed our first President Andrew Dokett, until the President's rooms were completed a few years later, but there is no documentary evidence of this. Certainly the layout of the staircase and its rooms are on a slightly grander scale than elsewhere in Old Court. It seems to have been the policy in earlier centuries, that, whenever an unstable or flaking plaster wall was found, the response was to cover it over with battens and a new plaster finish. As we explored Al, we uncovered two successive twentieth century layers, plus evidence of earlier layers now lost, apart from fragments of wallpaper. At some stage the walls had been framed out and covered with taut hessian, which was later wallpapered. But underneath all these remains were the original studwork partition walls of 1448, still in fine condition and bearing much original decoration. The presence of these walls indicate that, despite pressures for redevelopment affecting the interior of Old Court rooms elsewhere in earlier centuries, the layout of rooms on A staircase remains in its medieval form. One exception to this is always the doorways, and we were not surprised to find that interior doors had been mov.ed ¡at some early stage. As always, the new doorways are taller than the medieval ones, which means that the original horizontal beam midway up the wall was, regrettably, cut away, and some studs lost. Here, we performed some careful restoration work using old oak pieces rescued by the College maintenance staff from the demolition of other old buildings in Cambridge.

The painted decoration itself was photographed, as it could not be wholly preserved. A few plaster panels were lifted off and saved, but the majority were too badly deteriorated to save. Usuaily we find the decoration is floral in design, but this room was unusual in that the design was largely abstract, a bold pattern of black and white wavy lines on grey. The studwork, when cleaned, was found to be in very fine condition. The carpenter's marks (usually roman numerals) could be seen on each side of the joints, revealing that the wall had been prefabricated, then broken down into its constituent parts and re-assembled on site.

Further along in Old Court, the restoration of room CJ has been completed. This had been part of the Old Kitchens since the rnid-1930s, but has now been returned to its original residential function. It contains one fine medieval studwork wall, carefully restored.

In Fisher building, the provision of showers in all bathrooms and wash-basins in all toilets has been completed, and is being followed up by a general redecoration in these areas.

In Cripps Court, the flat roof to Phase One (stairs AA to EE) is deteriorating. A pilot replacement project has been successful over AA staircase, and the rest of the roof will be torn up and relaid in 1985. The need for this expensive work so early in the life of the building has been most disappointing.

Work on the exterior of the President's Lodge has been temporarily halted in order to spread the expense over a longer period. All necessary interior and structural work has been completed, but the exterior of the Essex Wing still needs attention. It is hoped that this work can start soon.

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Essex building has received further attention, this time to the chimney stacks, which were extensively weatherbeaten. The opportunity was taken to replace the chimney pots which one of my predecessors had unwisely taken down, leaving capped-off flues with a side vent. His arrangement produced rather alarming effects on the building's gas fires when the wind blew the wrong way!

Our brief look at the roof itself confirmed the need for a complete re-roofing in the not too distant future. Many of the tiles appear to date from 1760 and have become thin and fragile from the effects of weathering. Some previous cost-conscious Bursar has already turned them over once!

The steep slopes of the wooden bridge have always been a hazard, especially in icy weather. After several years of experimentation with different surfaces, we believe we may have an answer in the form of flexible matting composed of small rubber blocks. This also has the desirable effect of quietening down noise from trolleys etc. close to the President's family living quarters.

Routine redecoration in the last year has included: I staircase, Al, A2, Cl , W8, X7, Essex 2, 6, 9, Cloister I, AA9 and the corridors of Erasmus Building.

R.D.H.W.

The Library Librarian: Mr Wright Assistant Librarian: Mrs E. Machin Undergraduate Assistant Librarians: J. H. Boaden, B.C. Carter, P . R. Edwards, J. D. Goudie, S. M. Hill, N.S. Kingsley, M. I. Markham, W. Milliken Several Members of the College gave generously to the Library during the year, but none more generously than J.M. Cohen (1921). Jack Cohen is one of the College's most distinguished and prolific literary men, the author of A History of Western Literature, Poetry of this Age and studies of Browning, Borges and Graves, editor (with M .J. Cohen (1950) of the Penguin Dictionary of Quotations, translator of the Penguin Don Quixote, Writers in the New Cuba, The Conquest of the New Spain, of Flaubert and de Chardin, and for many years a chief editor of Penguin Classics. His gift reflects his remarkable breadth of interest and expertise, consisting of many classic works in a variety of European languages, and a library of modern Latin American literature which includes what is believed to be the largest collection of post-revolutionary Cuban literature in this country. The gift also includes some manuscript material, and will be an important resource for scholars.

An exhibition of items from the College's fine collection of medieval manuscripts was on display in the Easter and the Michaelmas Terms. It included the earliest complete manuscript in the Library, an eleventh century commentary on the Psalms; a beautifully illuminated Flemish 'Book of Hours' of the fifteenth century; and the personal notebook of the founder, Andrew Doket, the five hundredth anniversary of whose death was marked by the College this year. Copies of the catalogue of the exhibition are available, and the Librarian will be glad to send them to Members on request and without charge.

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As the President reports elsewhere in this issue, a set of fine mahogany bookcases, generously presented by Dr. C. Bibby(l932), has been installed in the Munro Room to hold 'overflow' volumes (mainly bound eighteenth century periodicals) from the Old Library.

Members have been generous in sending copies of their works - books, pamphlets, off-prints, and in some cases cassette tapes - for the archive of Members' works.

Further donations will be most gratefully received.

The following Fellows donated copies of their own works: Professor Holloway, The Proud Knowledge and {editor, with J . Black) Later English Broadside Ballads; Dr Diggle, an edition of Euripides, Fabu/ae I, and Speeches by the Orator; Professor Stein, Legal Institutions; Mr Hebblethwaite, The Christian Hope; Mr Wright et al., Criticism and Critical Theory; Dr Coaker, Advances in Applied Biology, Volume IX; Dr Botterill (translator), Music in the Middle Ages.

Donations were also most gratefully received from Dr Callingham, Dr Napier, Mr Hebblethwaite, Dr Segal, Dr Botterill, L. N. Mbanefo (1964), C. V. T. Walne (1961), Professor J. S. C. Riley-Smith, the Rev. W. H. Oswald (1919), Dr F.S. Goldby (1936), P.O. New (1981).

G. A. Starr (1958), Professor C. F. Beckingham (1932), H. J. Field, P. L. and C. M. Chambers, E. Mitchell, P. J. Drury, Mrs S. Farr, the Department of German, the Exeter University Library, and Cranleigh School. Dr Maxwell gave an extensive collection of volumes.

1984-85 Librarian: Mr Wright Assistant Librarian: Mrs E Machin Undergraduate Assistant Librarians: J. H. Boaden, N. J.Booth, H. J. Busby, P. R. Edwards, S. M. Hill, M. I. Markham, N. A. D. Stokes I.R.W.

The E Society Two meetings of the Society were held in the Lent Term, one in the Easter Term and three in the Michaelmas Term. The speakers were Mr Tiley on 'The Changing Face of the Tax System'; Dr Cormack on 'Recent Advances in Plastic Surgery'; Prof. Beament on' About the Bees and the Flowers'; Dr Sattelle on 'Conversations between nerve cells'; Dr Botterill on 'Italy in the Eighties'; Dr J. Deathridge, Fellow of King's college, University Lecturer in Music, on 'Wagner Biography: Sources and Interpretation'. The E Society Dinner was held in the Munro Room on Saturday 5 May. B.L.H.

Thomae Smithi Academia The Thomae Smithi Academia, a discussion group for Fellows, has continued to meet twice termly in the Old Combination Room. Discussions were held on the following subjects: in the Lent Term, 'College Clarets', introduced by Dr Hughes, 'Genetic Engineering', introduced by Dr Sattelle; in the Easter Term, 'Talking to ourselves?', introduced by Dr Botterill; in the Michaelmas Term, 'A Philologist's Apology', introduced by Dr Diggle, and, 'Burgundies and substitutes', introduced by Dr Hughes.

J.D.

The Chapel The following visiting preachers came to the College Chapel in the course of the year: the Rev. Simon TattonBrown ( 1967), Chaplain to the Bishop of Manchester; the Rev. Dr Don Carson, Tyndale House; the Rev. David Jones, Rector of Bristol; the Rev. Peter Templeman, Chaplain of St. John' College; Prof. Rudolf Weiler, Professor of Social Ethics, University of Vienna; the Rev. John Drury, Dean of King's College; Sister Oliver, St Mary's Convent; the Rev. Tim Appleton, University Lecturer in Physiology; the Rev. David Galilee, Vicar of St Mildred's, Addiscombe; the Rev. Prof. Gordon Rupp, Emeritus Professor of Ecclesiastical History; the Rev. Paul Brett, Church of England Board for Social Responsibility. The Dean of Chapel, the Lay Chaplain and Dr Spufford also preached.

The preacher at the Commemoration of Benefactors in Full Term was the Rt Rev. Michael Ball ( 1952), Bishop of Jarrow, and at the visit of the Graduate Club in June, the Rev. Michael Westall (1959), formerly Principal of Bishop's College, Calcutta.

J. A. McGovern was succeeded as Chapel Clerk by G. D. Quartly in the Easter Term.

The Ryle Prize for reading in the College Chapel was awarded to J. N. Green.

The Chapel Choir went on a tour of the Midlands in July, and sang Choral Evensong during the course of the year in Peterborough Cathedral, Saffron Walden Parish Church, Chelmsford Cathedral, St Albans Abbey and Norwich CathedraL They also gave a recital in Tring Parish Church.

B.L.H.

Notice to holders of the LL.B. Degree The University has announced that holders of the LLB. degree who took the LLB. examination before I Oct ober 1982 may apply fo r the redesignation of their degree as Master of Law (LL.M.). This announcement follows the change whereby the course which formerly led to the LLB. degree now leads to the LL.M. degree.

Those holders of the LLB. who wish to apply for redesignation as LL.M. should write to The Praelector, c/ o The Tutorial Office, Queens' College, Cambridge CB3 9ET. In due course a certificate of redesignation will be issued by the University and posted to the applicant, who may thenceforth assume the degree of LL.M.

Notice to holders of the B.A. Degree Bachelors are reminded that, at any time after ten terms have elapsed since their attainment of B.A., they may apply to proceed to the degree of M.A. Many graduates, fo r one reason or another, miss the opportunity to take their M.A. on the occasion organised by the College for their graduation year.

This notice is a reminder that it is quite possible to apply to proceed to the degree of M.A. later in life.

Anyone wishing to do so should write to The Praelector, c/ o The Tutorial Office, Queens' College, Cambridge CB3 9ET .

College Entrance Award Phillips Organ Scholarship: P.J. Walsh, Peter Symonds', College Winchester (P.J. Walsh has also been awarded Sawyer and Durrant prizes by the Royal College of Organists.)

Distinctions and College Awards 1984 FIRST YEAR N.J. Booth (Sevenoaks School): Class I in Part IA, Law Tripos.

P.E. Dorey (Abingdon School): Class I in Part IA, Mathematical Tripos.

C. M. Edwards (Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe): Class I in Part IA, Mathematical Tripos.

L.A. Ford (Canford School): Distinction in French Oral Examination.

D.M.A. Hendicott(George Heriot's School, Edinburgh): Class I in Part IA, Natural Sciences Tripos; College Exhibition.

M.J. Liley (Godolphin and Latymer School): Class I in Part IA, Natural Sciences Tripos.

R. K . Lowes (Newcastle Royal Grammar School): Class I in Part IA, Mathematical Tripos.

K .J. MacMahon (Stanborough School): Distinction in German Oral Examination.

J.G. Mansion (Shrewsbury Sc_hool); Class I in Part IA, Engineering Tripos.

P.S. Marshall (Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh): Class I in Part IA, Law Tripos; College Exhibition.

A.P. McD. Orchard (University College School): Class I in the Preliminary Examination for the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Tripos.

S.J . Prichard (Lincoln Christ's Hospital School): Distinction in French Oral Examination.

D.M.B. Reed (Lycee Fran~ais C_harles de Gaulle): Class I in Part I, Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos (French) and Distinction in French Oral Examination.

E.F. Saunders (The Richard Huish College, Taunton): Class I in Part IA, Natural Sciences Tripos; College Exhibition.

A.K. Thiemann (Sevenoaks School): Class I in Part IA, Medical Sciences (Veterinary) Tripos: College Exhibition.

M.J. Tindal (Clifton College): Class I in Part IA, Natural Sciences Tripos.

P .S. Wells (Bradford Girls' Grammar School): Class I in Part IA, Natural Sciences Tripos.

SECOND YEAR S.P . Briggs (Wycombe Abbey School): Class I in Part I, English Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

T.G. Fellows (Abingdon School): Class I in Part IB, Natural Sciences Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

D.S. Forrester (The King's School, Worcester): Class I in Part 18, Natural Sciences Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

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P.L. Hastings (Solihull School): Class I in Part IB, Natural Sciences Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

A.R. Jessop (Upton-by-Chester County High School, Cheshire): Class I in Part IB, Natural Sciences Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

B.F. Langford (St Paul's School, London): Cl.ass I in Part I, English Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

E.G. Levy (Westminster School): Class I in Part IB, Mathematical Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

W.W. Loh (Hwa Chong Junior College, Republic of Singapore): Class I in Part IB, Mathematical Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

P.T. Loudon (Ipswich School): Class I in Part IB, Natural Sciences Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

M.B. Moore (The Manchester Grammar School): Class I in Part I, Classical Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

C.R. Nokes (Reading Grammar School): Class I in Part IB, Engineering Tripos (Electrical Option); Foundation Scholarship.

S.J. Notley (Bedford School): Class I in Part IB, Engineering Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

J.C. Porter (Canford School): Class I in Part IB, Medical Sciences Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

C.E. Richardson (Launceston College): Preliminary Examination for the Computer Science Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

S.M. Sisodiya (Brentwood School, Essex): Class I in Part IB, Medical Sciences Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

R.M.V. Sturt (Marlborough College): Class I in Part IB, Engineering Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

M. Tilley (Whitgift School, Croydon): Class Im Part IB, Mathematical Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

THIRD YEAR T.J . Baldwin: Class I in Computer Science Tripos.

N.C. Battle: Class I in Computer Science Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

M.F.C. Callan: Class I in Part II, Natural Sciences Tripos (Physiology).

J.M. Champion: Class I in Part II, Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

D.J. Cummings: Class I in Electrical Sciences Tripos: Foundation Scholarship.

P. Draper: Class I in Computer Science Tripos; Foundation Scholarship.

R.F.S. Evers: Class I in Part II, English Tripos.

M. W. Forsyth: Class I in Part I, Chemical Engineering Tripos: Bachelor Scholarship.

P.A. Heyworth: Class I in Part II, Engineering Tripos.

Foundation Scholarship.

R.A. Lewis: Class I in Part II, Natural Sciences Tripos (Chemistry); Bachelor Scholarship.

S.A. Melton: Class I in Part I, Chemical Engineering Tripos; Bachelor Scholarship.

J.M. Munro: Class I in Part II, Engineering Tripos (Management Studies Option); Foundation Scholarship.

R.M. Nix: Class I in Part II, Natural Sciences Tripos (Chemistry); Bachelor Scholarship.

L.C. North: Class I in Part II, Oriental Studies Tripos.

D. Parker: Class I in Part I, Chemical Engineering .

Tripos: Bachelor Scholarship.

D.R.K. Parsons: Class I in Part II, Law Tripos;¡ Foundation Scholarship.

J.E. Prince: Class I in Part II, Natural Sciences Tripos (Chemistry); Bachelor Scholarship.

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J.W. Renshaw: Class I in Part I, Chemical Engineering

Tripos; Foundation Scholarship and Bachelor Scholarship.

S.O. Sage: Class I in Part II, Natural Sciences Tripos (Physiology): Bachelor Scholarship.

A.P. Williams: Class I in Part II, Natural Sciences Tripos (Applied Biology).

GRADUATE STUDENTS N.M. Beaumont: Class I in Part II, Chemical Engineering Tripos; Bachelor Scholarship.

I.N. Bolton: special merit in Animal Pathology and Microbiology, and in Animal Health and Reproduction for Part I, Final Veterinary Examination.

A.J. Claxton: Class I in Part II, Chemical Engineering Tripos.

S.R.B. Green: special merit in Animal Health and Reproduction for Part I, Final Veterinary Examination.

C.E. Hartford: Class I in LL.M. A.J. Kelly: Distinction in Part III, Mathematical Tripos.

D.C. Knott: Class I in Part II, Chemical Engineering Tripos.

K.F. Kolodny: Class I in LL.M. P.G. Petticrew: Class I in LL.M. S.E. Roberts: Class I in LL. M. M.J. Thompson: Distinction in Part III, Mathematical Tripos; Bachelor Scholarship.

J.W. Woloniecki: Class I in LL.M.

University Awards Institution of Civil Engineers Prize for Management

Studies: J .M. Munro Bartle Frere Exhibition in 1984: E.F. Kent Emeleus Prize: J .G. Prince Rebecca Flower Squire Scholarship 1984-85: N.J. Booth Michael Foster Studentship in Physiology 1984-85:

S.O. Sage Gladstone Memorial Prize 1984: aeq. S.C. White William Harvey Studentship for 1985-86: J.R. Petter

Norrish Prize: R.M. Nix Dr P.M. Schuftan Memorial Prize: S.A. Melton Marmaduke Sheild Scholarship 1984-85: S.M. Sisodiya John Stewart of Rannoch Scholarship in Greek and Latin: M.B. Moore Tyson Medal: M.J. Thompson

College Special Prizes Joshua King Prizes: R.M. Nix, L.C. North Hughes Prizes: T.G. Fellows, S.M.

Sisodiya, R.M.V. Sturt Venn Prizes: A.P. McD. Orchard, J.J. Tanner Chalmers Prize: P.L. Hastings Lucas Smith Memorial Prize: D.R.K. Parsons Openshaw Prize: E.G. Levy Melsome Memorial Prize: M.F.C. Callan Mosseri Prize: J .C. Porter Braithwaite Prize: P.S. Wells A.B. Cook Prize: J.M. Champion

The College Union and JCR 1983- 84 President: J. M . Corne Vice-President: Dr Hayhurst Secretary: S. E. Walkling Senior Treasurer: Dr Napier Treasurer: S. R. Hunt External Officer: M. E. Browning Steward of the Fitzpatrick: S. A. Bryan Fellows: Dr Ellory, Dr Jackson Graduates: I. P. Haywood, I. C. Harding Third Year Representatives: A. B. Courtney, P. Draper Second Year Representatives: S. N. Brown, J. H . Davey First Year Representatives: T.J. Pritchard, W. H. Stoddart Governing Body Observers: S. P. Ness, C. M. Ramsey

Before the elections last year a constitutional change made quorate open meeting decisions binding on the JCR Committee and separated some functions of the Council and the Committee. The past year has been spent consolidating this change.

The College Union spent some time this year considering the Kitchen Fixed Charge after a JCR open meeting asked for a non-compulsory KFC to be investigated. It is an issue that has.been smouldering an~ this year has become a burning one. The Council discussed the principles involved: maintaining Hall as a social focus; fostering or control of self-catering; and the idea of ID cards as a method of monitoring. Now that an open meeting has voted for ID cards, the Council is exploring a way of relieving the burden of the KFC. There has been a wide range of other activities. The Council has taken over the Overseas Bursary Scheme and applications have been invited from Southern Africa for entry in October 1985. The Council has discussed the problems of graduates in the growing MCR, and has agreed to give a contribution towards Blues' expenses. On other matters which may affect students the Union may be involved in making decisions about the boat house project a nd Cripps Phase III. The JCR Committee, after the study of last year, is considered to have become more accountable, and an effort has been made this year to make it more accessible.

The response from the open meetings has been good, with discussion ranging tbrough the miners' strike, making the May Ball a charity ball, and acquiring a table football machine. The Committee has continued to organise social events including a May Ball barbecue, informal live music in the Bar and the least uneventful disco of recent times.

Another issue that underwent spontaneous combustion due to an open meeting was the desire for later parties; a workable solution is being developed. On further matters which may affect students there was some response to the Campaign against Grants Cuts.

Members of the Council of the Union 1984- 85 President: S. E. Walkling Vice President: Mr Wright Senior Treasurer: Dr Napier Fellows: Dr Jackson, Dr Matthews Members of the JCR Committee, as below: United Clubs Representatives: S. N. Blake, S. 0 . Sage, E.T. Burr

Members of the JCR Committee 1984-85 President: S. E. Walkling Treasurer: A.G. Williams Secretary: J.R. Foguel External Officer: M.J. Hobday Steward of the Fitzpatrick Room: J. Simmons 路 Governing Body Observers: T. J. Pritchard, D. Wolffe Third Year Representatives: S. M . Dore, P. N. Hook Second Year Representatives: W. H. Stoddart, A. R. Trisoglio First Year Representatives: C. Mortimore, R. M. Perring Graduates: M. E. Leeser, G. Sayiner, S. B. Young

M.C.R. 1983-84 President: Dr Machin Chairman: I. P. Hayward Secretary (Acting): E.T. Burr Treasurer: J. H. J. Penny Steward: I. C. Harding Entertainment: R. Barber Room Ste ward: B. H. Butterworth

The MCR continues to expand. Now numbering approximately two hundred, its membership is increasingly diverse and is engaged in a wid.:- variety of studies, embracing one-year diploma courses and longer-term research. The Woodville Room, serving as Reading Room, TV Room, and Party Room combined, offers a convenient base for socialising, although it by no means defines the MCR. One of the most emphatic assertions of the MCR presence in 1984 was provided by the graduates' rowing eight, which proved the most successful of the Queens' men's crews in the May Bumps. Otherwise, of course, graduates participate in College sports teams, music, theatre, and the Chapel. More glory rebounded on the MCR in the inaugural graduates' five-a-side footbaJI competition, of which Queens' emerged the winner. 路 The amorphous nature of the MCR's composition presents a challenge to its Committee: to try to bring together the disparate elements. The Committee's responsibilities are two-fold: it represents the MCR in the wider world of the College, and it provides a range of entertainments. The latter task is supplemented by entertainment generously provided by Senior members of the College. The MCR thanks the President and Fellows for their invitations to dine at High Table; and it thanks Dr and Mrs Machin, Dr and Mrs Towle, Dr and Mrs Cosh and Dr Weber for regularly hosting functions for graduates.

Meanwhile, mindful of the international diversity of the MCR, the Committee is varying the路traditional fare and offering more in the way of'national' dinners as part of its programme. Notwithstanding its stronger presence within the College, the MCR continues to lack a sense of identity. This is not helped, perhaps, by accommodation arrangements, which 路allow only a quarter of the membership to have rooms in College, or, of course, by the very nature of graduate studies. Unfortunately, some graduates remain on the periphery of College life, which is so central to the undergraduate experience of Cambridge.

1984- 1985 President: Dr Machin Chairman: S. B. Young Secretary: G. Sayiner Treasurer: M. E. Leeser Steward: E. T. Burr Entertainment: N. Vaughan-Thomas 19

The St. Margaret Society 1983-84 President: Dr Pountain Vice-President: L. K. Kershaw Secretary: A. R. Ennos Treasurer: S. 0. Sage Commit tee: W. A. Thallon, P. M. Bruce, D. M. A,nderson, M. B. Moore, J. S. Gibbons, D. G. Winfield, N. J. Booth This was a very busy. year for the Magsoc. As well as continuing the usual series of iunchtime concerts and organ recitals, the orchestra and chorus performed Haydn's "The Creation" on December 2nd, in the Music School, West Road, under the baton of David Winfield.

Then, after a considerable amount of planning and problem-shooting, the society celebrated its centenary by asking Stephen Armstrong, a former organ scholar of the College, to return to conduct Sir Edward Elgar's "The Dream of Gerontius". The concert, which took place on 26th February, was extremely professional and the fact that West Road was packed out added to the sense of occasion.

The BBC's presence inspired performers at the Smoking Concert and participants in "Face the Music".

The highlights of a most enjoyable Mayweek concert were the performances of Bach's "Jesu meine Freude" by David Winfield's singers and the vocal arrangement of Barber's Adagio by the Chapel Choir under John Gibbons's sensitive direction.

On 6th December Matthew Taylor conducted a rousing performance of Brahms's "A German Requiem".

successful. Howard Brenton's "Gum and Goo" was put on by Katharine Way of QuC:ens' who later in the year went on to direct her own play "The Rehearsal". This is exactly the sort of enterprise that BATS feels it should be encouraging.

The highlight of the year was the Cloister Court Shakespeare, particularly after its more than conspicuous absence the previous summer. Phil Almond , ex BATS President, directed "Measure for Measure" to packed houses and, thankfully, blue skies. With a number of very polished performances, some memorable music by John Goudie and a complimentary review in "The Guardian", .it was a successful and welcome return to the May week tradition.

The Michaelmas Term can only be described as frantic.

The keynotes were imagination and originality, with Katharine Way's "The Rehearsal" closely followed by "Decadence" by Stephen Berkoff. This is a new play, a satirical and humorous attack on the decadence of both rich and poor. It is written in verse and was interpreted, directed and performed by Tim Hopkins and Melanie Hudson. Stuart Young was simultaneously staging "The Three Sisters" at the ADC and later in the term Barry Langford's "Antony and Cleopatra" performed by a cast of eight in Old Hall, although well-attended and enthusiastically received, compounded the problem of the overcrowded BATS agenda. The year ended on a rather uncomfortable note with BATS' seemingly continuous occupation of the Old Hall understandably rankling with Fellows and other societies alike. However a complete modification of policy is underway, and we hope to restore good relations with the rest of the College in what looks to be a promising 1985.

1984-85 President: Dr Pountain Vice-President: J. R. Petter Secretary: D. M. Anderson Treasurer: S. 0. Sage Publicity: L. H. Rogers Ex-officio: J. S. Gibbons Committee: P. M. Bruce, L.A. Ford, C. S. M. Lawrence, M. J. Taylor, P. S. Wells.

1984-85 President:R. M. V. Sturt Secretary: A. R. C. Stokes Senior T,easurer: Mr Wright Junior Treasurer: J. W. Renshaw Equipment Manager: N. C. A. Evans Costumes: J. K. Brooks Committee: A. L. Briggs, P. N. Hook, B. F. Langford, A. J. Maund, J. W. Nicholls, D. Osrin, C. J. T ravis, K. S. Way, K. L. White.

The Bats 1983- 1984 President: P. J. H. Almond Secretary: S. N. Brown Senior Treasurer: Mr. Wright Junior Treasurer: N. J. Wyke Equipment Manager: N. C. A. Evans Costumes: J. K. Brooks Committee: J. P. Davies, P. A. Foulkes, J. D. Goudie, J. W. Nicholls, J. W. Renshaw, A. G. Roberts , R. M. V. Sturt, C. J. Travis, J.C. Unwin.

BATS has had an almost entirely successful year. The Cloister Court May Week production was revived, a record number of shows have been staged, and artistic standards have been consistently high, and last but by no means least, BATS is once again very comfortably in the black.

The year began quietly with two low-budge,t productions in Old Hall. Rainer 'Evers directed "Macbeth", an extremely popular choice with Cambridge directors and audiences alike last year, and consequently fairly

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Queens' Bench 1983- 84 President: H. S. Bell Secretary: D . S. Tunkel Junior Treasurer: P. J. Sullivan A varied programme was presented in the Lent Term. At the first meeting a representative from the legal computer firm, Lexis, discussed how new technology is changing the way in which many practitioners now research cases.

Oddly, the attendance was low - perhaps a reflection of legal Luddism. Higher attendances were registered for a talk on "The Public Inquiry" by Mr. Justice Mann, in which he also discussed the general extension of the idea of administrative law. At a later meeting, Professor Stephen Cretney, the English authority on family law, spoke of his work on the Law Commission. The Annual Dinner was again a success. Mr. Justice Popplewell gave a wellreceived address to over forty Queens' lawyers and their guests in the Munro Room.

Attempts at raising the level of participation in the Queens' Bench were made by a new Committee at the start of the Michaelmas Term. To which end our first speaker was invited to dine and chat with twenty Law undergraduates in Formal Hall before the meeting. Mr Tettenborn, Fellow of Pembroke, gave us an account of the ideas behind his new book on the "Law of Obligations". A considerable number of the twenty-nine people who attended the meeting itself adjourned with the speaker to the rooms of the Social Secretary for more discussion.

The interest generated by this populist approach led to the commercialization of the next meeting, addressed by eminent text-book writer and scholar, Professor J. C. Smith. An informal buffet supper was held in the Armitage Room, for which tickets were sold. As a social occasion it was success in its own right; the fraught questioning on the subject of "Recklessness in the Criminal Law" was no less impressive. The attendance of fity was a record since 1977.

Such activism, it is hoped , will set a precedent for future organizers and members of the Queens' Bench.

audience on that occasion could have been bigger. To encourage attendance and to make meetings more akin to social events, the Society decided to dine in Formal Hall before meetings. This variation proved popular and the next meeting which was addressed by Dr J. K. Dewhurst, the Medical Director of Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd, who spoke on "Doctors in Drug Development", was well attended and provoked much heated discussion on the ethics of the Pharmaceutical Industry. At the last meeting of the term, Prof. J. P. Payne, Director of the Research Department of Anaesthetics of the Royal College of Surgeons, spoke on "The Quality of Care". His talk and accompanying slides encompassed a large spectrum of medical history and the evolution of quality control over what the profession seeks to achieve, and were much appreciated by the small but discerning audience present.

It is hoped that 1985 will herald increased enthusiasm and interest in the Society.

The Society's Annual Dinner has been scheduled for the Lent Term of 1985 and an enjoyable evening is anticipated. We express our sincere thanks to Ors Callingham and Cormack for their generous support and encouragement.

1984- 85 President: J. H. Davey Secretary: D. L. Ruffley Junior Treasurer: K. S. Ibrahim Social Secretary: D. J. Tarsh

1984-85 President: A. M. Johansen Secretary: R . Sinnatamby Treasurer: S. J. T. Gilbert

Medical Society Classical Society 1983- 84 President: R. J. Wilkinson Secretary: A. M. Johansen Treasurer: J . M. R. Reay The Society has enjoyed a successful year with interesting meetings addressed by eminent members of the profes. sion. The Lent Term began well with Dr R. S. Tedder from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School posing the controversial question "ls Homosexuality an Infectious Disease?". This well attended meeting was followed by a fascinating look into the equally provocative techniques of Amniocentesis and Gene Probes led by Prof. R. Williamson from St Mary's Hospital Medical School.

Subsequently Mr K. Hardinge, a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Centre for Hip Surgery, Wrightington, gave an interesting insight into "The Development of Hip Surgery"; and the term ended with an enjoyable Buffet Lunch. The Easter Term with its recurrent nightmares of Tripos was quieter. The new Committee was elected , and the academic year was concluded in traditional fashion with a Garden Party.

A very busy Michaelmas Term commenced with a book sale and squash for the first years. At a packed opening meeting, Dr J. Treleaven, who is involved in pioneering research with the Imperial Cancer Research Fund assessed the "Prospects for Cancer Therapy". Her address was highly informative and thought provoking and inspired hope for the future . At the next meeting Dr K. W. Heaton, Reader in Medicine at the University of Bristol and an old Queensman, gave a useful talk on "Diet and Disease", a field in which he is a leading expert. The

1983- 84 President: R. S. Todd

Secretary: M. B. Moore

The Classical Society, entering with vigour its twentysecond year, was graced by visits from various distinguished speakers. In his talk entitled "Greek Tragic Acting," Dr. Stephen Halliwell of Corpus Christi College commented upon rhetoric in tragedy and actors' interpretation of their script. Dr. Paul Millett of Downing College tackled the traditional view of debt-bondage in the ancient world, using evidence from such varied sources as the Bible and modern S. America. Dr. Geoffrey Horrocks of St. John's College, posing the question "Was Homer's great-great-great-grandfather an Arcadian?" aimed to prove that Homeric dialect revealed the existence of a pre-Mycenaean oral tradition. Professor Eric Handley of Trinity brought along fragments of actual papyrus to illustrate his survey of some of the problems involved in recent papyrus finds. Finally, Professor Michael Reeve of Pembroke gave us an insight into¡ criticism and composition in his talk "An Alcaic Ode." The end of the academical year was celebrated by the annual dinner, a sumptuous affair, enlivened by afterdinner speeches from our visiting speakers as well as from Mr. Stephen Oakley and Dr. James Diggle, whom we must thank for his hospitality during the year.

1984-85 President: L. J. Smallwood

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Engineering Society 1983- 84 Vice-President: C. M. Hunt President:C. J. Travis Treasurer: C. R. Nokes Secretary: 1. Simmons First Year Representative: M. J. Docherty Lent Term started off with a very informative tour of Charles Wells brewery in Bedford. This was arguably the most popular event of the year and we are very grateful for the generous hospitality we received. The next meeting was addressed by Dr Phil Barnard from the Medical Research Council on the subject of "HumanComputer Interaction: a perspective from cognitive psychology" which proved as interesting as its title. The term ended with the Annual Dinner at which our own Dr Cohen presented some of his experiences gained during early development work on jet propulsion at Farnborough.

It had been hoped to arrange a weekend away to visit the Peak District but unfortunately it proved almost impossible to tear people away from Cambridge.

Easter Term was taken up with a visit to the Cambridge telephone exchange and a talk on the cross-Channel cable link given jointly by representatives of Pirrelli and the C.E.G.B. The A.G.M. rounded off the term with the new Committee being elected.

During the following Michaelmas Term the new Members of the Society were introduced over sherry and formal Hall. This was followed by a talk entitled "Even Mechanical Engineers Need Concrete" given by Jack Dixon of British Rail's Research Department who used the opportunity to introduce this surprisingly versatile material to the Society. Later in the term at our first video evening, the non-engineering members of College were exposed to our activities and some expressed interest in forthcoming events.

A meeting was required after the mid-term loss of the President at which the existing Vice-President duly accepted an invitation to fill the vacancy. A new VicePresident and a First Year Representative were then elected. Thanks must go to last year's committee and to Dr R. A. Smith for all his assistance.

1984- 85 President: M .J. Docherty Vice-President: B.F. Devlin Treasurer: R . V. Loeb!

Secretary: A. Paice First Year Representative: P. M. Clarkson

Changes for 1985 President: B.F. Devlin

Vice-President: J. C. M. Bates

Film Society 1983-84 President: A. J. Hobson Secretary : 1. H. Aldersey-Williams Vice-President: J. M. R. Reay Treasurer: S. L. Roberts After a rather uncertain start to the year due to the antiquity of the College projector, it was necessary to use male charm to procure a replacement from Newnham.

Subsequently, audiences were enthusiastic and flocked to see a wide variety of films, such as "The Great Gatsby", "What's Up Tiger Lily", and " An American Werewolf in London". The sixties cult movie " Barbarella" attracted a sizeable crowd due, no doubt, to the antics of Jane Fonda! It was a very healthy year financially but the profits will be somewhat deflated when the repair bill arrives! The Old Hall has served the Film Society well in the past but many problems will be solved when the proposed College Theatre is finally built.

1984- 85 Secretary: L. J . Smallwood President: 1. N. Selby Vice-President: J. R. Petter Treasurer: M . P . Hickman

History Society 1983-84 Secretary: D . M. Anderson President: J. Harrison Committee: M . C. Dea n, L. A. Hammond In the Lent Term of 1984 a talk on Karl Marx prod uced what must have been a record attendance at a Queens' History Society meeting. A Michaelmas Term talk of 1984 attracted a similarly enthusiastic response. David Anderson, now President, invited P rofessor M ichael F oot, a 'freelance historian', to speak on the "Special Operations Executive during World War II". Of course it is always possible that the impressive turnout was due to the common assumption t hat Michael F oot was the Michael Foot. Even so I'm sure any initial disappointment was dispelled by an extremely interesting talk.

John Gillingham from the L.S.E., visited the society in December and chose to speak on "The Lion in Winter Revisited: sex, marriage and politics in Medieval England". As Mr Gillingham suggested, the title attracted a very respectable audience even though it was the last week of term.

1985 commemorates the 500th anniversary of the death of that ambitious usurper of England's crown, Richard III. The Annual Dinner in March, hopefully having Sir Owen Chadwick from Selwyn as its Guest Speaker, will be a special one 'in honour' of this memorable historical figure. It has been suggested that the Battle of Bosworth be restaged on the Erasmus Lawn but the Society's budget just won't stretch that far .. ...

1984- 85 President: D. M. Anderson Secretary: L. A. Hammond Treasurer: 1. R . Phillips

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Record Library

Christian Union

1983-84

1983-84 College Representatives: G. J. Dunn, J. N. Green

President: H. J. Busby

Over the past year the Christian Union has seen a steady and encouraging growth in numbers, with several members of College becoming Christians during the year.

In October we welcomed a good number of Christians to Queens', and have been delighted at their enthusiasm, and involvement in our witness. The Christian Union has maintained its usual activities; our weekly prayer meetings and Sunday lunches continue, as do the six Bible Study groups meeting weekly in College. Since October all the groups have been studying Romans, the leaders benefiting from the opportunity to attend the Read Romans training scheme Jed by Dr Murray Harris, Warden of Tyndale House.

Notable events, during the year, included a joint day conference with Newnham Christian Union, at the end of the Lent Term, with Stan Blake as our speaker. Our houseparty at the end of the Long Vacation saw a change of venue, to St Antony's Centre, Stretham, and was led by Trevor Knight of NYLC. On our return to College, Tim Green, who was at Queens' three years ago, was our speaker at the Freshers' Squash. In November we organised an event in College under the title" ... And Now The Good News", at which a couple of members gave their testimonies and Pete Spiers from Ridley Hall spoke.

In last year's report we mentioned a prayer letter for old Queens men which has been restarted. If you would like to receive this please write to one of the reps.

We are grateful to our speakers and others who have served us over the past year, but above all to our Lord for all that He has done.

The Record Library continues to expand and cater for a wide variety of tastes. Lack of space is beginning to be a problem, increased by the discovery of several hundred records in the basement of Cripps, which unfortunately cannot be accommodated at present. The year has seen yet another increase in the variety of music available, including much more Jazz, Soul and Reggae, as well as the continued acquisition of chart albums. Suggestions are always most welcome, and contrary to popular belief are nearly always followed . With a membership of around a hundred and the number of records now well over a thousand, the record library continues to be one of the best used facilities in College.

1984- 85

The Women's Group meetings, which are open to all women in Queens' and sometimes to men too, seem to be waxing ever more popular: several well attended and much enjoyed ones have been held over the year. We have had a number of very interesting visiting speakers, including a representative from the Cambridge home for battered wives, and a transvestite from the Beaumont Society: arrangements for the near future include a talk

by Lady Warnock on the Warnock Report on human fertilization. Lunch and supper meetings were introduced in the spring and food has proved a great attraction! In the Michaelmas Term we have actually.had some first years at our meetings, a new occurrence and something we hope will continue. Our discussions during the year have included a hotly debated one on Gender Stereotyping, very well attended, partly, perhaps, because it was filmed by the BBC.

College Representatives: C. A. Noble, A. R. Tiller

Photographic Society 1983- 84 Secretary: R. Cipolla

President: N .J. Drew Treasurer: P.T. Ellis

Despite staunch efforts by the Committee to broaden the interests of the membership, the club's activities are still very much concentrated within the confines of the darkroom. With this in mind we have given priority to improving its equipment and the black and white printing and processing facilities are now probably the best in any College. Individuals have continued to produce work of a very high standard and we have attracted considerable interest from the latest crop of first years.

1984- 85 President: D. A. Shaffer Secretary: J.C. M . Bates Librarians: E. M. Feij, N. Fredericks, T. H. Luce, K. S. Mainprize, I. G. Marfany, E. D. Tealby, M. J. Tindall.

Women's Group 1983- 84 President: R. S. Todd

Secretary: M. E. Browning

1985- 85 President: S. M . Dore Treasurer: E. C. Dennis

Secretary: A. Roper

1984- 85 President: S. A. Melton I'reasurer: R. D. Reoch

Secretary: D. C. Parker

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Sporting & Other Activities Officers of the Clubs 1984-5

Captain/ President E.J. Sheen N.P. Warren D. Wolffe I.P. Rayner (Ladies) A.J. Burford T. Bannatyne Bridge T.J. Hopwood Chess A.K.J. Jones Cricket M.J . Streetly Croquet T.G. Fellows Cross Country B.F. Devlin Diving D. Wolffe Hockey (Ladies) R .E. Dowdney J . Simmons Lawn Tennis (Ladies) R.K. Bevan L.A. Hammond Netball S.N. Blake Rugby O.D. Burton Squash A.R. Tiller Swimming and Water Polo M.T. Jolly Table Tennis J.E. Prince Tiddlywinks R.V. Loeb!

Unicycles Association Football Badminton Basketball Boats

Secretary

Treasurer

D.N. Moore P.O. Vecchione T.J. Pritchard C.R. Nokes

M.B. Moore N.A.D. Stokes

R.M. Plackett J.A. Young J.R. Phillips A.R.C. Stokes C.M. Shepherd R.A. Baxter T. Nicolle

P.R.V. Broke

H.J . Ryland B.J. Rigg O.D. Burton W. Milliken M.T. Jolly B.F. Devlin B.F. Devlin

C.I. Macdonald

M.D. Scott C.W. Mullineaux M.J. Tindal M.D. Scott

J.H. Boaden

K.D. Roshier

S.O. Sage N.G. Walker

Ladies 1st JV who won their oars in the Mays '84.

Left to right A.J. Burford, S.E. Temple, S.J.M. Timmons, F.J. Darvell, C.A. Ormerod.

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Boat ClubThe members of Queens' College Boat Club all work hard at their rowing, and the commitment to training is spreading through to the lower boats. The increasing importance of the Ladies' contribution to Queens' rowing is most welcome, and their achievements are impressive. We are depending more and more upon the enthusiasm of the novices for our future success, and much effort has to go into fostering and maintaining their interest in rowing.

The 1st VIII was hampered at the beginning of the Lent Term by patchy coaching and numerous personnel changes. The potential of the crew was never fully realised; it went up one place in the Lent races, catching Peterhouse in The Reach after a long row. The 2nd VIII displayed amazing vitality, rarely rating less than 38 during races. However, this was not enough to save them from being caught by Downing II and Pembroke 11.

Despite much hard work during the Easter Term, the 1st VIII slipped out of the First Division, relegated by a very fast Cats boat. They remained sandwich boat for the remaining three days. On the last day there was a canvas between Queens' I and LMBC II. The crew, exhausted after 5 row-overs, did not have sufficient punch to close the gap, and they remain head of Division 2. The 2n? VIII worked hard on and off the water, but were caught first by Christ's II then by Caius II and finished 13th in Division 2. The 3rd VIII suffered badly from lack of training, going down 4 places in the 4th Division. The 4th VIII, the Rugby Boat and the Graduate Boat put in spirited performances in the 5th, 6th and 7th Divisions going up 8 places between them. The Ladies stood out in the Mays: the 1st IV won their oars, and the 2nd IV their wooden spoons!

The Michaelmas Term was disappointing for the higher boats this year. The 1st IV showed promise, turning in a controlled and neat performance at the Putney IV's Head. Unfortunately the style was not carried through into the 1st VIII for the Fairbairns, which were disastrous! This was in part due to lack of coaching, and to lack of experience within the club. The 2nd VIII was not formed until late in the term and contained four novices; considering this their performance was respectable. We also entered boats in the University IV's and the Emma dashes. The Ladies 1st IV obtained a good result at Putney, being 3rd in their class; in the Fairbairns ¡ they finished 13th. The 1st VIII finished 14th. We turned out three Mens and three Ladies Novice VIII's which had mixed fortunes in the Clare Novices Regatta, the best performance being the Ladies VIII which was narrowly defeated in the semi-final. In between Christmas and the New Year, a mixed VIII rowed the 111 miles from Oxford to Putney to raise money for Save the Children Fund, and the Ethiopian appeal, for which we should raise several hundred pounds.

We are trying hard this year to build up the social aspects of the club. Also we are competing more often than ever before. In this way, we hope to encourage people to row and train consistently throughout the year.

The results of this policy will not be evident for two or three years, but we hope it will be a success.

Rugby. At the start of 1983 the Rugby team finished th_ird in the league with a victory against Jesus. As preparation for Cuppers a side made the trip to St Edmund Hall, Oxford for a friendly game. We defeated St Edmund Hall

(usually the strongest Oxford college) 14-8 and Cuppers was approached with confidence. Queens' were given a bye in the preliminary round and in the first round defeated Trinity 21 - 3. In the second round we faced Pembroke who fielded a 'Star' studded pack but who couldn't match our team work and were defeated 15- 3.

The semi-final against Magdalene was played at Jesus and proved to be a classic match. Fortunes fluctuated throughout, and at full time the score was 6- 6. A 20 minute period of extra time followed, during which despite a fine effort by the Queens' side and excellent support from the touchlines, Magdalene pulled away to win 12- 9. The team started 1984-85 season well but two defeats against Magdalene and John's have laid hopes of a league championship to rest. J.C. Downs was selected by the LX club.

Association Football. The Lent Term saw Queens' reach the quarter-finals of Cuppers only to lose to a very strong Catz side. Two legs were played in each of the preliminary and first rounds and aggregate scores of 10-0 and 8-4 were achieved against Peterhouse and Corpus Christi respectively. The midfield was strong, physically and vocally, but unfortunately the Captain Arnheim was injured and unable toplay against Catz. In other matches Portlock, Winfield, Robins and Broke ably supported. him, while D N Moore and Warsop, the latter elegantly supporting a cravat, worked hard and effectively up front The defence, symptomatic of all Queens' soccer defences, suffered from the usual bouts of schizophrenia. Solid at times, with Sheen and Prichard playing regularly and Straw, M. B. Moore, Dunn and the portly Heffernan (a testament to the plentiful profits of the College bar) alternating around them, it was despairingly fragile at others, despite Potts' attempt to bring a sense of cohesion from the goal.

We achieved a mid-table position in the league held during the Michaelmas Term with two matches still to play. The arrival of Scott, Adams, Brader, Bray, Obertelli and Ross helped to compensate for those who had left.

Some good performances towards the end of term helped to counterbalance some mediocre ones at the beginning.

Ross (5) and D. N. Moore (3) shared most of the goals between them. Special mention must go to the 2nd team's awe-inspiring 23-2 victory over Girton under the leadership of Thynne who alone scored 8. A fine 4-1 win over Caius staved off the perennial relegation battle. The 3rd team led by Yates occupied a unique place in their usual gentlemanly fashion of being arguably the worst exponents of the game in Cambridge but with drafting from the Rugby Club they still managed their annual victory achieved against John's 4.

Congratulations to Potts on being awarded his second 'blue' in the 4- 2 victory over Oxford at Wembley and to Prichard in gaining a 'Falcon', although they went down 1-0 to the Oxford 'Centaurs' at Fenners.

Hockey. In 1984 the club was successful in all aspects of the game. On the field, the boys in green stormed through to win 2nd XI Cuppers; the 2nd XI itself ended the season undefeated. The annual outing to Clacton-on-Sea, crowned by superb bucket-and-spade weather saw the old lags in action - Torrance, back for his fifth year; Prescott, proving he still knows how to play cricket; and Brown ... from that other place. Off the field, a truly riotous annual dinner about which little can be 25

remembered - and some earth-shattering experiences at Clacton in which the boys drank a pub out of beer and discovered how nauseous fun-fairs can become ("swings and roundabouts", I suppose!).

And what about this season?The 1st XI has won a few, and lost a few ... the 2nd XI has lost a few, and lost a few (promotion!), and the Ladies have ploughed ahead regardless. Events to look forward to: annual dinner, Clacton (again), end of season, return of Gary (Beanpole) Dodds.

We were very sorry to hear of the death of Larry Peel during the summer of 1984; he was a prominent member of the 1st XI for the last three years. We would like to send our condolences to his family and friends. The Larry Peel Cup will be awarded in his memory at the end of each season to the highest league goal scorer in the 1st XI.

Cricket Club Team 1984

Cricket. Queensmen play well in the sun, badly in the wind, and not at all in the rain. This was the story of another somewhat abortive season. Eight matches were cancelled mid-season as the rain rendered the Barton Road square unplayable. Our exit from Cuppers in the first round against Caius took place on a miserably cold and windy day, when we somehow managed to collapse from 60 for I to 130-odd all out, chasing only 160. Yet the beginning and end of the season showed the undoubted potential of the side. Andy Jones scored 98 in the preliminary round of Cuppers, when Peterhouse were thrashed. Tim McHenry, who played his cricket with a style that belied his comic appearance, batted grittily and bowled tidily. Simon Blake bowled fast and well, and Martin Scott was dependable behind the stumps . Quentin Brown played for the Crusaders. The greatest triumph came against Corpus, when, set 240 to win in only 37 overs, Gary Nienow and Andy Jones put on 160 for the first wicket, as the team went on to win with a couple of overs to spare. We lost to Hull University off the last ball two days later. Antics in the field were occasionally bizarre, and the bowling sometimes lacked direction. However, everyone made notable contributions at some juncture.

Poor weather and exams were a blight to the season, but Queens' has enough talent and enthusiasm to allow it to be very effective when given the chance to play.

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Cross Country. Although injuries took a heavy toll on some key runners, there was enough strength in depth in the College to secure fourth place in the first division for the 1983/ 84 season. The 4-man team of Mike Shepherd, Tim Fellows, Roland Ennos and Andrew Jennings came third in the Hare and Hounds relay, the first three teams being well ahead of the rest, and were the only team to have all four runners under 6 minutes. Tim Fellows was elected Captain of the club for the 1984/ 85 season, with Mike Shepherd taking over as Secretary and Conrad Mullineaux as Treasurer. It is interesting to note that most of the talent in the club now comes from runners who never trained seriously at school. Although this may encourage others to rise to stardom, the current lack of experienced runners coming into College explains in part why we left 1984 in fifth place in the first division, fighting to avoid relegation. 1984 has seen the emergence of the "Queens' Handicap". This is a light-hearted event for College members only, with the Captain and Secretary deciding the handicaps from recent results. Conrad Mullineaux's dedicated training paid off when he won the first . handicap over 5 miles in March, and Antony Johansen won the second over 2 miles in December. We hope there will be more to come.

Swimming and Water Polo. After having won all our league matches in the Christmas Term of 1983, Queens' went into Cuppers as favourites. On the way through to the final we beat Downing with a depleted team of only five players! The semi-final against Peterhouse was a hard-fought game, and Queens' eventually won the trophy, beating Christ's 8- 3 in the final. In contrast, this season we have suffered from the loss of Dave Jones and Pete Jackson, two of our half blues, and unfortunately match times meant we missed several Rugby players.

There has been an enthusiastic response from first years, many taking up the game for the first time. As expected, the inexperienced side failed to score a league victory although they improved steadily throughout the term and played very well to beat Churchill in a friendly match. We managed to score several goals in every game, and the scores were always respectable. Swimming Cuppers in the Easter Term 1984 was a success for the College, particularly for the ladies' team who came second. Karina MacMahon, Louise Semple and Anne Tan were largely responsible for this, and with good performances by Bill Milliken and others in the men's event, Queens' were second overall.

Diving. Springboard Diving has never existed in an organised form in Cambridge. Coaching sessions were set up this year, with the result that 50% of the divers in the University are from Queens'. Bruce Devlin of Queens' (Coach) managed to pick up a bronze medal at the British Universities Sports Federation Games in Blackpool.

Prospects for 1985 look good with several Queens' men and women able to take part in a display at the Varsity Games.

La.wn Tennis Club. The 1984 season was not a resounding success for the I st team. After several close league matches (Division 2) we managed only one win, against Fitzwilliam I. Following this win we went into the second round of Cuppers with some confidence, fielding one Blue and one Grasshopper and seeded no. 2.

However, we soon felt the effect of the absence of our regular no. 3 player and found ourselves trailing 4- 1 on

the University 1 st team during the year, Richard in t � e Varsity Match. In Cuppers, the 1 st team lost dis­ appointingly to Trinity in the last eight, but the 3rd team of Ralph Burgess, Patrick Dory, Richard Marples and John Yates performed brilli,antly to reach the last four, but losing to the eventual winners, Caius I, in a very close match.

Tiddlywinks. The Queens' College club continued to thrive this year. The Fergus memorial Trophy, in its second year, was shared between Paul Hilditch and Stew Sage. An embarrassing defeat during this tournament caused Paul to resign, and Bruce Devlin to take over as Secretary. Cuppers was not to be a happy event for Queens', with 75% of the team playing each other in t? e first two rounds. In an exciting final, the perennial struggle between the R. A.T. S . ( Robinson) and Q�eens' saw a victory for Robinson despite a masterful 7-0 victory

by Jon Prince and Bruce Devlin in one game . T? e Micha,elmas Term saw the birth of the Welsh Mernonal Trophy and the appearance on Breakfast Televisio n of Stew Sage in his role as President of the University Club, promoting Tiddlywinks. The year also saw several national and international competitions in the College .

These included The Cambridge Open, The National Teams of Four and The World Masters Singles.

Unicycles. A nyone brave enough to cycle with only one wheel would have to come to Queens' to d o it. The Club is continuing to grow, and attract a lot of attention from the public (particularly from American tourists) while out on its Sunday rides. The Rag Parade once again saw the U nicyclists, out braving their bottoms on the near marathon ride round the Cambridge streets, collecting money for charity. A large influx of Freshers in the Michaelmas Term along with the loss of several experienced unicycle owners saw the club short of equipment. Several of the new members however are very fast learners and enj oy the sport so much, that they have purchased their own machines. The prospect� �or 1 �85 include expanding our horizons with Custard Pie Jousting and possibly sponsorship from Pashley the main Unicycle manufacturers.

Queens' M en i n the S outh - West The twelfth Annual Dinner for Queens' Men in the South-West was held on I 1 th May 1 984 at the County H otel, Taunton, the numbers present being 1 8. The Guest of Honour was Dr. C.J. Pountain who in an entertaining manner gave us the latest news of happenings in the College.

The next dinner will again be at the County H otel, Taunton when the President-expects to be our guest. As is probably well known by now, the President is arranging a series of receptions in different parts of the country and he has suggested that the one for the South-West takes place immediately before the dinner. It should be realised that the reception and the dinner are intended to be separate functions, though we hope to see as many as possible at either or both.

E. W. Chanter of Malsover, Calverleigh, Tiverton, EX 1 6 SBA (Tel. Tiverton (0884) 2533 1 5) will again be responsible for arrangements for the dinner and will be pleased to answer any enquiries.

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Qu eens' M em bers i n the N orth - West The Thirty-fourth Annual Dinner for Queens' Men in the North-West was held at the Old Vicarage Hotel, Stretton, near Warrington on Friday, 6th April 1 984. The Rev .

Bryant F.F. Crane presided and twenty-three members of the College were present. The Guest of Honour was Professor P . G. Stein who replied to the toast to the · College, proposed by F.P. Nichols.

The next dinner will be on Friday, 29th March 1985 at the same hotel at 7 . 00 for 7 .30 p.m. The Guest of Hon9ur will be .

Enquiries should be addressed to the Rev. Bryant F.F. Crane, 6 Ridgefields, Bidd ulph Moor, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs, ST8 7 JE (Tel. Stoke-on-Trent (0782) 5 I 3752.

D eaths We regret t o record the following deaths: R. Colenutt ( 1904) in 1 977 The Rev. H . R. Cooke, M.C. ( 1 904) The Rev. L. P. Jackson ( 1904) in 1 976 The Rev. H . L. Stevens ( 1 907) The Rev. H.S. Bailey ( 1 908) The Rev. H . Crick ( 1 908) in 1 979 G. H . Crump ( 1 909) J. R . Wade, C . B. ( 1 909) The Rev. L.T. W.G. Burleigh ( 1 9 1 0) The Rev. J . B . Brand ram ( 1 9 1 I ) in 1 976 The Rev. B.E. Eldridge ( 1 9 1 1 ) Lieut. Col. C.J. H . Treglown, M.C. ( 1 9 1 1 ) G . F. Rose, M. Sc. (Lond). ( 1 9 18) H . K. Cassels ( 1 9 1 9) in 1 975 J . C. Hogg, A. M . (Harvard), M.C. ( 1 9 1 9) Sir Roland Penrose, C. B . E. ( 1 9 1 9) F.T. B. Snow ( 1 9 1 9) in 1 98 3 H. R. Youngman, M . D . , F. F.A. R.C. S. ( 1 9 1 9) Professor G.P.L. Bevis ( 1 920) The Rev. Canon E. Clayd on, H.C.F. ( 1 920) The Rev. N . �.H. Westall ( 1 9 20) in 1 983 E.C. Lamplugh ( 1 92 1 ) in 1 98 1 The Rev. P.W. Morris ( 1 9 22) Maj or-General Sir D ouglas Campbell, K.C.B., C . B. E. , D.S.O., M . C. ( 1 923) in 1 980 C.W.N. McG owan, C. Eng., F. Inst. CE., F.I. Mech. E. , F.I.A.R.B. ( 1 923) C. van Stolk ( 1 923) in 1 983 R . H . Brentley ( 1 924) in 1 98 1 A.F. Darvall ( 1 924) H .J. Jarrold , C.B. E. ( 1 924) in 1979 The Rev. Canon P . H. Duke-Baker ( 1 925) D.B. Cater, M . D., F.R.C.S., Sc. D. ( 1 926) The Rev. C.F. Walters ( 1 926) J . M . B. Wolfe ( 1 926) in 1 983 H . Coombes ( 1 927) in 1 980 E.A. Sharman ( 1 927) in 1983

The \"en. P.L.C. Price ( 1 929) in 1 9 83 C. H .G. Proctor ( 1 930) '- .T. Walker, M.B.E., M. D. ( 1932) in 1 9 82 M. M. Bull, M . D . ( 1 933) Capt. N . A . Leadbitter ( 1 934) in 1 974 J. M . Winn, F. R.C. P. (Lond). ( 1936) in 1982 Sir Michael Gass, M.A. (Oxon), C.M.G., K.C.M.G. ( 1 938) B.J. Prigmore, M . Sc., C. Eng., F.I . E.E. ( 1 938) Professor S.G. Cohen, Ph.D. ( 1 939) Professor J.A. C. Brown (194 1 ) J . S . Whitton ( 1 942) D.W. Lewis ( 1 943) J.C. Mantell, M.B.E. ( 1 943) in 1 9 83 P.H. Withington ( 1 945) in 1 9 80 D.B. Walton ( 1 946) D.J. Hurford ( 1 950) in 1982 E.B. Watts ( 1 9 5 1 ) in 1 970 R.D. Welfare, B.A. (Oxon), Dip. Ed. ( 1 968) in 1 982 P. de Grandpre ( 1 970) L. Peel ( 1 98 1 ) T.H. Luce ( 1 984)

We apologisefor an error in the Recordfor 1984, in which F. E. Zollinger (1940) was wrongly included among the deaths.

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Queens' College Club President: Vice Presidents:

Secretary: Treasurer:

Committee E.R. Oxburgh, F.R.S. The Rt. Rev. C.R. Claxton H.C. Belk L.V. Chilton D.W. Bowett, C.B.E., Q.C. M.M. Bull A.N. Hayhurst N.F. Hughes

1982 1923 1921 1923 1948 1933 1957 1937

Committee Members Until 1985 A.S.F. Butcher J.E. Gordon C.V.T. Walne M.J.D. Bown

1944 1958 1961 1951

Until 1986 J.M. Riley R.G. Jones M.M. Scarr, G.M. D.C. Horton, D.S.C., S.S., K.Y.T.

1950 1956 i933

Until 1987 K.C. Bailey N. De B. Corbin P.A. Kitchin D.K. Prosser

1928 1942 1962 1947

Until 1988 F.F.C. Edmonds O.D.H. Cox J.W. Sutherland, C.B.E. D.M.A. Hook

1933

1920 1951 1941 1951

The Annual Meeting was held on Saturday 23 June 1984. The Treasurer reported that 127 first year students, and 8 older members had joined. Over 200 people were present at the Dinner.

The date of the next meeting will be Saturday 15 June 1985.

Queens' May Ball 1985 The Governing Body has kindly given permission for this year's Ball to take place in the College grounds on the night of Monday, 10 June 1985. Walnut Tree Court provides an exquisite setting for ballroom dancing and a fine Jazz line-up. In sharp contrast an innovative laser show will highlight a disco in Old Court while more energetic live music will be performed on Erasmus Lawn.

Dinner will consist of a lavishly decorated buffet in New Hall. Numerous bars and stalls will serve free sparkling wine, cocktails, fruit and fruit juices, barbeque food, and strawberries and cream; ladies will receive a sample bottle of Yves Saint Laurent scent. The Committee extend a warm invitation to all Old Queens' men and women; full details and application forms are available from Miss F. A. Myers, Queens' College.

Illustrated History of Queens' Queens' College Cambridge - A brief illustrated history

by M.M. Scarr G.M., M.A. (Queens' 1933-37)

This booklet contains within its 24 pages all the relevant features of the College history. There are almost forty illustrations, many coloured, of the College buildings and of the personalities who have made outstanding con­ tributions to its development and story. The plan of the College on the frontispiece is related to an adjacent recent aerial view of the College and is, in itself, an informative history of the development of the buildings.

The publication was very favourably reviewed by the late Sir Arthur Armitage and has received the warm commendation of many members of the College.

Copies may be obtained from the Visitors Liaison Officer at the College; price ÂŁ1.25 (including postage UK or surface mail).

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