July 1903

THE

PETERITE. Vol,. X VIII.

JULY,

1903.

No.

161.

SCHOOL LETTER. .RICKET is now over, and we are sorry to say that the season has been far from successful. The team was, however, a young one, and the second eleven matches revealed the existence of some promising players, who ought to do well in the First next year.

Commemoration. Day was a great success. On the same day the new Science Block was opened by Professor Clifford Allbutt (0.P.). After the opening, the company proceeded to the Gymnasium, which was converted into a temporary dining hall, and served admirably for the purpose. We were especially pleased to see Mrs. Handford among the visitors.

This term has seen the institution of a Fives match between us and Bootham School. Two pairs from each school were sent in, one playing on our ground, and the other on that of our opponents. The match resulted in a victory for St, Peter's by 4 games to 3.

Before we lay down the editorial pen, and pass it on to other hands, we cannot refrain from giving expression to that time honoured grievance of "Peterite " Editors, lack of " copy." We wonder whether there was ever a School of so unliterary a turn of mind as St. Peter's. The few people who have the public spirit to contribute to the magazine of their school, appear to have no soul above football or cricket reports. Mind, we are not attempting to disparage the usefulness of these harmless and

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necessary scribblings—on the contrary, we are deeply grateful to their authors ; but if the writers would only turn to the composition of articles and verse the brilliant qualities of imagination which they display in the manufacture of cricket reports, what a comfort it would be to the harassed editors I Having given vent to this grumble, we resign our duties to other hands, in the hope that their task will be rendered somewhat easier by our words.

OLD PETERITE DINNER. The Old Peterite Dinner was held in London, at the Holborn Restaurant, on Thursday, the 2nd July. A list is given below of the O.P's. who were able to be present, from which it will be observed that the number was smaller than usual. This was, however, due to various unavoidable causes, and in many cases promises of attendance next year were received from absentees. A photograph of the proceedings was taken during the evening by Messrs. Fradelle & Young. The toast list was in the usual form, the speakers being the Chairman, the Headmaster, and E. R. Dodsworth replying for St. Peter's School, present and past.

P. B. Lambert proposing the health of the Chairman, Professor Reinold, and subsequently of H. J. Newberry and Dr. Needham, Professor Reinold paying a generous tribute to the work of the Hon. Secs., and the O.P's. whose names were coupled with the toasts.

Several interesting photographs were added to the Club Album, including those of the Rev. Wm. Howson (a former Headmaster), the Rev. T. C. Smyth (the oldest Peterite), and some school groups taken forty years ago.

The following O.P's. were present : Abbay, Rev. R. ; Bailey, R H. ; Brady, M. P. W. ; Chadwick, C. H. ; Dodsworth, E. R. ; Dodsworth, Rev. W. W. ; Draper, W. B. M. ; Fasten, Rev. J. A. ; Ford, W. P. ; Gregory, Rev. T. H. ; Henderson, H. W. ; Jackson, S. ; Lambert, P. B. ; Macturk, M.

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H. T. ; Milner, Rev. W. H. ; Needham, Dr. F. ; Newberry, H. J. ; Owen, Rev. E. C. ; Pochin, W. J. R. ; Reinold, Professor ; Taylor, Rev. J. W. W. ; Worsfold, W. B. The lion. Secs. wish to express their thanks for many kind letters received, with photographs and anecdotes of the School in former days.

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CRICKET. ST. PETER'S

V.

NORTH RIDING ASYLUM.

Played on the Asylum ground, on June 10th. The Asylum won the toss and put themselves in. Roy and Cadle started the bowling. When only three had been scored, Dr. H.earder was missed at the wicket off Roy ; however at 17, he was clean bowled

by Cadle. Best came in, and a stand was made. St. George went on to bowl instead of Roy, but without result. The services of Mossop were then requisitioned, but it was not until 124 had been scored that Best was bowled by Cadle. Two overs afterwards, Dr. Tighe succumbed to the same bowler. Shortly afterwards Milnthorpe's long inning came to a close, his career being terminated by a catch in slips. After two more wickets had fallen, the Asylum declared their innings at 173 for 6 wickets.

The School made a bad start, three wickets falling for 18. A partnership between Roy and Jones, however, put on 44 runs, out of which Roy contributed 33, being then bowled by Hill. Yeld was soon out, but Peters came to the rescue with a contribution of 17.

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St. George returned a ball to the bowler, and two more wickets fell in quick succession, Jones succumbing to a catch at mid-on. When Mossop came in, the last over of the day had been called, but he failed to survive, and the game ended in a four wickets victory for the Asylum.

ST. PETER's.

L. M. Cadle, lbw, 1, Lennox 9 B. H. Pickering, b Best G. A. Fisher, b Lennox 0 M H. T. Roy, b Hill..

33 K. S. Jones, c Holdsworth b Lennox 33 P. H. Yeld, b Milnthorpe 4 E. C. Peters, b Holdsworth 17 A. R. St. George, c and b Lennox 6 E. N. Greenhow, run out ....

0 S. Crowther, not out ............

1 C. R. Mossop, b Dr. Tighe 0 Extras 8 Total

NORTH RIDING ASYLUM. T. Milnthorpe, c Greenhow b Mossop 80 9 Dr. Hearder, b Cadle C. Best, b Cadle 42 1 Dr. Tighe, b Cadle E. Holdsworth, b Cadle 5 W. Hill, c St. George b Mossop .. 12 E. Frost, not out 6 W. Spavin F. Waterhouse I Meynell ( Did not bat.

G. Lennox Extras 18

116

Innings declared closed.. .... 173

Bowling Analysis :— M. H. T. Joy ..

L. M. Cadle A. R. St. George C. R. Mossop

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ST. PETER'S V. LEEDS G.S.

Played at Leeds. Rain began to fall just as the game began.

Roy won the toss and we opened with Cadle and Pickering. They started steadily till Pickering was bowled in trying to pull Brown (1-14-8). Fisher came in and opened well, repeatedly getting Broadbent away to leg. This bowler, however, bowled Cadle with a beautiful ball (38-2-17). Only five were added when Roy mishit a half volley from Brown (43 3 1). Jones, who had Cadle to run for him, only scored four when he was smartly caught at point (.56-4-4). Fisher was batting very well, and on Yeld joining him a stand was made. Yeld, though very much favoured by luck, only gave two chances to hand. The luncheon interval was now taken. The stoppage was lengthened through heavy rain.

Directly after the resumption Fisher was bowled in playing back to Broadbent (84-5-36). His innings was invaluable and free from blemish. Yeld went on hitting while Peters kept his end up the -

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latter, however, being out to a very cross hit (107-6-7). Yeld was the next to go, bowled by a ball which looked very like a half volley (11,-,-7-29). St. George was out directly afterwards from a tame hit (115-8-5), and. a rot ensuing all were out for 121.

Leeds opened their innings in brilliant fashion, as Broadbent and Hinings put on 59 before the latter fell to Roy, who got Brown's wicket next ball. Seaton batted patiently while Broadbent scored rapidly. A very fast ball from. Roy dismissed the former and Pickering bowled Sykes. Another man being run out and Cadle catching Smithells high up at point, things looked hopeful for us as the score was 94-6-0. Roy was bowling in deadly fashion, and got rid of Broadbent with a beauty (102-7-59). The outgoing batsman had played magnificent cricket, being specially good on the off side. Rain was now coming down. in torrents, making the ball very hard to hold. Cadle quickly dismissed Hanford and Brayshay, and Leeds wanted 12 to win with one wicket to fall.

This they managed to accomplish by steady cricket. Roy bowled very well throughout, taking five wickets for 25 runs. Score : LEEDS.

ST. PETER'S.

17 Cadle, b E. Broadbent 8 B. Pickering, b H. C. Brown G. A. Fisher, b Broadbent 36 1 M. H. T. Roy, c esc b Brown .... 4 K. S. Jones, b Broadbent , 29 P. H. Yeld, b Brown.

E. C. Peters, c Seaton b Brown .. 7 A. R. St, George, c & b Broadbent 5 E.N.Greenhow,c Broadbent b Brown 0 S. Crowther, not out 3 G. Mossop, c Hanford b Brown 2 9 Extras L. M.

E. W. Broadbent, b Roy ......

F. W. Hinings, b Roy H C Brown, b Roy A. Seaton, b Roy W. H. Sykes, b Pickering T. P. Wilson, run out F. E. Smithells, c Cadle b Roy N. L. Hanford, b Cadle E. M. Stansfield, not out W S Brayshay, b Cadle F. L. Addison, not out Extras

59 17 0 5 0 0 0 1 10 1 7 15

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Total.. 121

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Total

125

POCKLINGTON SCHOOL.

At York, on June 20th. Pocklington won the toss and sent in Smith and J. Dalton'to bat. The pitch was by no means easy, and. the batsmen seemed in difficulties from the start with the bowling of Roy and Cadle, both of whom were getting a lot of work on the ball. Runs came slowly and the hour's play before lunch yielded 41 runs for the loss of five wickets. After the resumption Cadle

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soon captured Brice-Smith's wicket, but with Gilbert and Burman in the attack was completely mastered. Eighty-three runs were added before Gilbert was rather unluckily bowled by Pickering.

Though rather unsteady before lunch his subsequent play had been brilliant in the extrem). Further stands were made for the ninth and tenth wickets, Burman being the last to go for an invaluable forty-four compiled by steady cricket. Cadle's bowling was the best feature of the School attack.

Pickering and Cadle opened the school innings, and began scoring freely till at 26 Cadle fell to a catch at point. With fifteen added Fisher pulled a ball into his wicket. Only four runs later Pickering's steady innings was brought to a close in attempting a short run, a fate which Roy shared immediately after. At fiftyfive, Jones and Peters were dismissed. Verini saw fifteen added before be fell to a catch in the long field. St. George and Yeld, both, particularly the latter, having some lucky escapes, batted pluckily and raised the hundred. The innings closed for 107, a very disappointing display on the part of the school, who, as in the previous match showed a very distinct lack of steadiness in the batting, Pickering being the only exception. The loss of wickets in attempting foolish runs was particularly annoying. Of the Pocklington bowlers Robson was decidedly the better, but both would have had considerably better averages but for dropped catches.

ST. PETER'S.

POCK LIN GTON.

L. M. Cadle, c L. E. Smith b R. BriceSmith 13 B. Pickering, run out 21 G. A. Fisher, b Robson ....

7 M. 11. T. Roy, run out 0 P. B. Yeld, lbw, b R. Brice-Smith 28 E. C. Peters, b Robson 2 K. S. Jones, h Robson 4 R. H. Verini,c Green b R. Brice-Smi , h 2 A. R. St. George, c Gilbert b 11.

Brice-Smith 20 S. Crowther, b Robson . .....

0 C. It. Mossop, not out 0 Extras 10 Total ..107

L. E. Smith, b Cadle J. C. Dalton, b Cadle R Brice-Smith, b Cadle P. Dalton, b Cadle H. M. Brice-Smith, b Cadle C. M. B. Skene, b Roy L. A. Gilbert, b Pickering C. E. L. Burman, b Roy L. Green. c Cadle b Roy It. E. Abbott, c Roy b Mossop F. Robson, not out Extras

9 5 13 5 10 56 44

2 14 14 11

Total , .184

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Bowling Analysis :— 1M. H. T. Roy L. M. Cadle C. R. Mossop

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DURHAM SCHOOL 2ND.

Played at Durham on June 4th, and resulted in an innings victory for Durham.

ST. PETER'S 2ND.

2nd Innings.

1st Innings.

3 R. H. Verini, c Elliott b Hearn 24 E. N. Greenhow, run out 0 M. T. Clegg, b Jones . 0 J. N. Blenkin, run out 0 R. Baldwin, c Wingrove b Jones 3 W. E. Eardley, run out 0 E. S. N. Bulmer, b Jones B.G.Laughton,c Thompson b Hearn 4 2 M. Browne, b Jones 5 R. C. Todd, not out 0 W. H. Colley, b Hearn 3 Extras -Total. • 44

b Jones c Elliott b Hearn b Hearn c Thompson b Jones b Firth b Elliott run out c Churchy-ard b Moult b East b Jones not out Extras

10 • .••••••• 17 3 10 9 16 , 21 . 19 0 8 5 7

DURHAM 2ND.

51 J Churchyard, b Greenhow 4 A. Hearn, b Clegg 8 E. Thompson, b Clegg • • • • • • . 16 R. Wingrove, b Greenhow 0 . 79 A. East, c & b Greenhow J. Moult, not out.... ....

4 C. Thompson, c Browne b Colley 8 H. Frith, b Clegg Extras 8 P. Caesar, c Browne b Colley • • . 12 6 A. Jones, b Colley -Total 196 A. Elliott, c Eardley b Colley • • • . 0 Bowling Analysis : o.

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M. 3 0 22 C Blenkin 3 56 1 Clegg 13 •• 4 Laughton 14 0 3 43 0 • • 8 Grecnhow 9 2 38 4 Colley 0 18 . • 0 5 Bulmer .

• ST. PETER'S SCHOOL 2ND V. LEEDS G.S. 2ND.

Played on June 13th.

Rain put a stop to the match.

LEEDS G. S.

ST. PETER'S 2ND.

13 Smith, c Clarkson b Sullivan Chapman, c Baldwin b Sullivan • • 1 5 Gaunt, c Bulmer b Sullivan 1 Eastwood, b Colley 0 Hammond, b Colley 13 Croft, c Eardley b Clegg 27 Stone, b Peters H. Robinson, lbw, b Clarkson • . • • 10 11 Fletcher, b Clarkson 0 J. Robinson, b Peters 0 Slatter, not out 10 Extras

J. N. Blenkin, c Chapman b Croft 8 M. W. Peters, b Gaunt . 1 A. Wilcock, c Fletcher b Gaunt .. 10 W. E. Eardler, c Chapman b Gaunt 3 M. T Clegg, not out ..2 1 R. Baldwin, not out

Total.. 90

Total (4 wkts.).. 25

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CRICKET. ST. PETER'S 2ND v. BOOTHAM SCHOOL 2ND.

Played on the St. Peter's ground on June 19th, and resulted in a draw in favour of Bootharn.

BOOTHAM ScHow, 2ND. Rowntree, c Baldwin b Sullivan 24 Southall, h Clegg 4 Goodbody, c Eardley b Clegg .. 0 Cash, b Clegg 0 Harvey, c Peters b Bulmer 33 Walker, b Clegg Bell, b Clegg 0 Smith, b Bulmer 38 Milner, not out •••• .• 9 Jones, b Bulmer 0 Eddington, run out 2 Extras..

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ST. PETEK'S 2ND. 0 G. N. Greenhow, c Harvey b Cash 8 J. N. Blenkin, b Goodbody 5 A. Wilcock, b Cash 0 M. W. Peters, b Cash .... .

W.E. Eardley, c Rowntree b Harvey 11 0 M. T. Clegg, b Cash ....

R. Baldwin, b Smith ...•••• 18 E. S. N. Bulmer, b Rowntree 2 R. C. Todd, b Harvey 8 J. H. B. Sullivan, not out .....••• 5 W. H. Colley, not out Extras.... 9

Total 124

Total (for 9 wkts.)

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5 2 12 9 1 21 12 4 28

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ST. PETER'S 2ND V. POCKLINGTON SCHOOL 2ND.

Played at Pocklington on June 20th.

POCKLINGTON 2ND.

ST. PETER'S 2ND. E. N. Greenhow, c Wraith b Quirk 0 2 J. N. Blenkin, b E. P. Moore 11 W. E. Eardley, run out 3 A. Wilcock, b Moore 12 E. A. Clarkson, 1) Quirk 34 R. Baldwin, b Darnell 1 M. W. Peters, c Wraith b Quirk ..

5 E. S. N. Bulmer, b Moore 1 M. T. Clegg, c Higgins b Quirk 5 J. H. B. Sullivan, not out 0 W. H. Colley, b Darnell Extras 9 Total Bowling Analysis :0.

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G. O'Meara, b Sullivan C. Wraith, b Clegg C. Murray, not out H. Papworth, b Wilcock A. Hodgson, b Sullivan H. Darnell, not out Extras

Total (4 wkts.) .. 108

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OPENING OF THE NEW SCIENCE BLOCK. (Partly extracted from the " Yorkshire Herald.")

June 30th was Commemoration Day at St. Peter's School, York, and it was celebrated by the opening of a new building which marks an important step in the march of progress which has been inaugurated by the Governing Body. Hitherto science has been taught at the school under the great disadvantage of a totally inadequate equipment, but now with the new and up-to-date laboratories which were opened by Professor Clifford Allbutt, of Cambridge, the science master will be enabled to impart his instruction under the most favourable circumstances.

The day's proceedings were commenced by a celebration of Holy Communion at eight o'clock, which was followed two hours later by Matins, at which the sermon was preached by the Rev. Canon Watson from Rom. xii., 2, " Fervent in spirit." He said the occasion was a specially interesting one. The old school had taken another step forward in response to the demands of the times, placing it ia the front rank of our educational institutions.

Addressing the boys, the Canon reminded them that the battle of life was in front of them, and their education was to fit them to take their part nobly and manfully in it. He was ill-educated who was ill-equipped to face the problems of life which were before him and take his part in the great warfare. He commended to them the great quality and virtue which was in the Apostle's mind. There were some poor, weak, tepid, flabby souls who were never eager and enthusiastic about anything. Let them imitate the exanaple of the great Apostle who was their patron saint. Let them be filled with the spirit which animated many of those sons of St. Peter's School whom they were commemorating that day.

Think of what the enthusiasm of noble men had done in the past, men like Roger Bacon, Columbus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Charles Darwin. What grand work had been done by the social reformers of pa,st days, men who grappled with the miseries and sins of mankind, who acted while others talked, girded up their loins while others sighed and despaired. Such naen had been the saviours and deliverers of mankind, men who preferred labour to

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sloth, simplicity to luxury, love to selfishness, truth to falsehood, God to gold. Let them moreover cultivate the virtue the same Apostle called " sobermindedness "—which really meant the bridling of passion, the supremacy of law and duty, the sovereignty of the spirit over the senses, of the reason over appetite, of the soul over the body. What was the true secret of the majesty of ancient Rome ? Let the poor skeleton at Pompeii answer who stood at his post when the sulphurous storm burst over him. The end of education after all was character. There was work ahead for them all. There were social problems to be faced—reeking abominations to be dealt with. Let them go forth into life and do their work with manly diligence. Let them respect themselves, for God made them—respect the dignity of God's image on them.

The seal of His redemption was on their brow. The Church needed them, God needed them. Let them hasten the coming of the glorious time when the kingdom of this world should be the kingdom of our God and His Christ.

THE OPENING CEREMONY. The Dean of York presided over a meeting which was held in the big schoolroom prior to the opening ceremony. There were also present Professor Clifford Allbutt, F.R.S. (Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge), Professor Reinold, F.R.S. (Royal Naval College, Greenwich), the Bishop of Beverley, the Rev. E. C. Owen (headmaster), the Rev. Chancellor Temple, the Rev. Canon Watson, the Rev. Canon Argles, Alderman Foster, Mr. E. R. Dodsworth (clerk to the Governors), Alderman Sir J. Sykes Rymer, Alderman Purnell, Alderman Agar, Alderman McKay, Alderman Wragge, Councillors Peters, Todd, Scott, R. G. Heys, H. Foster, and Pearson, Mr. G. Yeld, M.A. (second master), Lieutenant-Colonel White, Dr. Tempest Anderson, Professor Clapham (Yorkshire College), the Rev. W. Johnson, the Rev. P. J. Shaw, the Rev. A. G. Tw eedie (Selby), the Rev. M. Sullivan, the Rev. E. E. Nottingham, the Rev. E. Peters (Airmyn), the Rev. G. W. de Courcy Baldwin, Mr. W. W. Hargrove, Mr. F. J. Munby, Mr. Haigh (Recorder of Scarborough), Mr. J. Peters, Mr. Brierley (architect), Mr. J. Newton, Mr. H. C. Shaun, Mr. T. B. Whytehead, Dr. Evelyn, etc.

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PROGRESS OF ST. PETER'S.

The Dean, who was received with great cordiality, said that was indeed a red letter day in the history of St. Peter's school. In the first place it was another instalment in the progress which, during the last 20 years, they had been doing their best to achieve for the welfare of the school. He alluded to the gift some years ago of the gymnasium by an old Peterite, whose name had never transpired, and then said that the governing body had at last succeeded in obtaining the Commissioners' permission to make a venture in the direction of those science schools, which they believed and felt persuaded would do very much for the welfare of the present generation and the generation to come. He could not help hoping that the work which had been so well done would be a challenge, and inaugurate the work to be done in the future.

There were many Peterites who were full of loyalty and affection to the old school, and were indebted to it for the prosperity and positions in life which they enjoyed. Many of them were able to do a little, some of them were able to do much, all of them were able to do something. He was not an old Peterite himself,—he wished he was,—but lie had, during the time he had been in York, always taken a deep interest in the school's prosperity and welfare.

One was bound to do so. What school in England had a longer or a higher prestige? The late Chancellor Raine stated that in the early Saxon days that school was famous amongst the educational institutions of England, and from that time to the present it had gone on fl min generation to generation furnishing its quota of those who in her chequered times of history had made England what England is. He trusted that the watchword of the school would be " Progress "—progress not only in education but in the buildings required to carry it on. They could not help feeling that at the present moment those were not quite up to date. He was sure that such a state of things must hinder the work of the most talented masters, and he hoped that here such a hindrance might soon be a thing of the past, and that it would not be long before they again met to inaugurate the opening of other buildings. They had the pleasure that day of

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welcoming two of the most distinguished alumni of the school. If asked what St. Peter's had done and could do they could say that it had prOduced Professor Clifford Allbutt and Professor Reinold. He then gave a sketch of the career o f Professor Allbutt, who, he said, was essentially a man of peace.

It was, however, recorded that when at St. Peter's he engaged in a great and vigorous combat in which he came off victorious. The combat was between him and. the present Bishop of Bristol, their weapons were bolsters and the battle-field the dormitory of the boarding house.

THE SHORTCOMINGS OF EDUCATION.

Professor Clifford Allbutt was received with loud cheers, and spoke of the great honour he felt at being asked to perform the ceremony. In a few minutes they would be opening the new laboratories of St. Peter's School, and it must occur to everybody to wonder a little to what purpose those laboratories had been built. There were some obscurities in answering that question, and there were also other very plain features. The plain feature was that we were becoming very painfully convinced of late years that there had been great shortcomings in our English education.

Although the reasons for that shortcoming might be several, certainly one very important reason had been the neglect, not of some occupation with scientific pursuits, but of the methods of science ; and it had been felt that this was one of the reasons why —for he must not shirk the truth—the men who were turned out of the great public schools, although there were no institutions in the world like public schools for turning out men of character— upright, honourable, resourceful, adventurous men, loving order and with extraordinary political instincts, with all these great and incomparable virtues without which the race would have perhaps been comparatively nothing—yet these great virtues had been in trade and war and in almost every great national function, to a certain extent diminished and even in some respects rendered futile by the defects of certain intellectual endowments. It might not be quite easy to see how this was, to understand whether it be by defective education or by some defect of capacity that the

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feature of the English people is, from a certain point of view, that of defective intelligence, or perhaps he should say defective intellectual equipment. Since he had been at Cambridge it had been a matter of great astonishment to him to find that the intellectual equipment of the boys who went up was so slight.

They felt that there was something wrong, some deficiency, some shortcoming in education. It was hoped that by opening laboratories of this kind they would to a great extent remedy those deficiencies. But they must remember that the movement is not one merely for adding a science laboratory to other departments. If he were a boy he should be a little timid that the authorities were going to pile it on ; that they were going to add something more to the subjects of work and examination. That was not the purpose of those in authority ; lie did not think that they desired to pile a greater burden on the back of the boys than they were able to carry. What they proposed to do was to alter the older methods of education and this by virtue of scientific conceptions.

REVISION REQUIRED.

In all branches of learning our method requires revision. In teaching classics the methods were medimval ; and the same thing applied to mathematical study. At Cambridge they were largely engaged in remodelling, or at any rate reforming, the methods of mathematical instruction. The methods of education in our public schools generally were antiquated and needed regeneration, and it was his impression that the science laboratories would induce a development and readaptation of the methods of all teaching to modern needs. Not merely for the sake of piling up a mass of new facts in the boys' minds, but that the conceptions of which he had spoken should alter all forms of education ; and he believed as a specialist in science that it was very largely due to modern science and the systematising of scientific methods that the spade had been put into the hand of the classic, the slide rule and the drawing-board into the hands of the mathematician. It was by such reforms that the introduction of science laboratories would influence St. Peter's and all the schools of the country. But science

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could be taught just as badly as mathematics ; it could, in fact, be taught much worse, and there had been a great deal of sham science taught, which, he trusted, would be entirely foreign to St. Peter's. On the science side at Catnbridge they now preferred boys who had had no training in science, because those already trained were usually taught on the old narrow methods, but without the thoroughness which distiilguished the methods employed in teaching the humanities.

EDUCATION OF THE FACULTIES.

Education in its best sense was the educating of all the faculties, fixing in the mind certain principles and the development of certain conceptions, rather than instruction in all knowledge. Human knowledge was a great deal too vast—little as it may be—to be taught in detail. In the growth of a tree a large part of the material it absorbs is thrown off again with the annual fall of its foliage ; but it is by this process that it develops ; and so it is with the human mind, whose growth depends as much on what passes through it as upon what it accumulates. We have to give the young their capacity, to train their faculties on all sides, to give them that intellectual facility by which the student would be able to take up any subject easily and readily. Ile came across a paradox by Mr. Ruskin the other day which contained a great truth ; he said their modern education was " giving people the faculty of thinking wrong on every conceivable subject of importance to mankind." True education was not merely training the faculties, but it was in preserving a sense of proportion in the training of those faculties that true wisdom lay. In the formation of wisdom—that was to say, how not to think wrongly— they welcoined freedom, but that freedom must be used to the best possible purpose to secure that balance of all the parts of our mind in which true wisdom lay.

SCIENCE NOT A LEADER.

" Science," concluded the doctor, " cannot be a leader ; it follows, and explains, and elucidates, and adapts ; but our ideas are moving perpetually before it. It was not science which revealed

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to us 2,000 years ago that the way to divine wisdom is by purity of heart, but science illuminates this gospel to-day. By natural science we know that a deed, good or evil, can never be undone ; we may seek to counteract its results, but we can never annul it, nay more, by the doctrine of the conservation of energy we learn that not deeds only but each thought, be it good or evil, enters in perpetuity into the substance of the mind of the thinker, and that, for good or evil, his mind is thenceforth and for ever different. It is natural science which convinces us that even in thought we cannot play curiously with base or shameful things, and then wipe them away as if we had never been occupied with them. Boys rarely mean any harm, they mean on the whole to be honest and clean ; and the most precious gift scientific education can bring you is to bring home to you that from a mind once stained the fair surface is gone, at any rate for a time. Yet this is no matter of despair ; science is not fatalism. The same science teaches us that good and evil together can be sublimed into a new development of life, but at a price of effort and renunciation increasing in geomatrical ratio with the original error. Physiology makes manifest to us how busy and efficient is the self-purifying machinery of our bodies whereby the invasion of distempers is prevented or defeated, but it tells us also that if the watchfulness and the alertness of the tissues of the body be at fault, some distemper may fasten on it and may destroy it ; and physiology has the further lesson for us that this body and mind are one, and that in one hour's heedlessness, in a few minutes' parley with the enemy, it too may be corrupted or even made desolate. I repeat that the movement of education which gives you these new laboratories is not to burden with more knowledge. It is hard enough to digest what is taught you already. It is to train you to wider conceptions of the conditions under which you have to live and work, to carry you up another height, where you may see the old vision in a new perspective.

How the new and the old methods are to be blended, how the new and tentative methods are to be brought in without loss of the thoroughness and system of the old, it is for experts in education to say. But from science you will learn to comprehend the powers,

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the certainty, and continuity of nature, to rule yourselves by the accuracy of her processes, and by patient analysis of her laws, to make yourselves her master and not her servant ; but while doing this you may well bear in mind the truth in another paradox of the late Professor Freeman, that it is the function of science to bring great nations up to the level of small ones, that it is a means not an end. If natural science is to make only big things for us and not big thoughts we were better without it. I have said that science teaching may be as barren as any other instruction if carried out not so as to enlarge the ideas but so as to stuff the mind with mere cram work. This kind of teaching I am sure you will not be given at St. Peter's. For my part I think for boys no science is so useful as " Nature Study." A boy is naturally a collector ; and when I was a boy we were much occupied. in collecting on the sly. Not only did we get no encouragement and help in our natural history, but we had to conceal such treasures as we hoarded lest they should be sutnmarily dealt with as rubbish.

Nevertheless there was a small band of us who knew the haunts of every kind of bird within six miles of York, and where they nested. The district must, I think, be a good one for birds, or we were raore lynx-eyed and vigilant than in later life. I cannot imagine a more useful and educative service for boys than directions how to observe, how to collect, how to arrange eggs, plants, minerals, and the like, and to identify and name them."

AN HISTORICAL OCCASIoN.

Professor Reinold next addressed the meeting, and was received with great cordiality. He spoke of the pleasure it gave him to take part in the proceedings of the day, and said that the memories attached to the school were very pleasant. That was an historical occasion in which St. Peter's was making a new move, beginning in a certain sense a new life, starting on a new career, or at any rate a modified career. In the old days when he was a boy, St. Peter's gave a good education, and turned out some very fair classical scholars and mathematicians, but he thought those who went to the universities would have been better off if they had had

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some elementary teaching in the principles of science. Those who took to science after, as he did at Oxford, had to do a certain amount of elementary work, which might have been done at school. He was glad that St. Peter's had taken the new departure; it was absolutely essential that it should do so. In those days they had no means of obtaining information on scientific matters,— not that the masters were indifferent, for Canon Hey, who was head master in his time, was a very fair geologist, and had a remarkable entomological collection, but they did not go any further. He went through the new buildings the previous evening, and he thought that the new laboratories were admirable. He had seen a good many chemical and physical school laboratories during the last ten years, but he had not seen anything better than those.

With that equipment, they had the means of carrying on the study of chemistry and physics quite as favourably as any other school.

He should be very sorry to think that St. Peter's was going to be a science school ; he hoped that it would always maintain the character it had held throughout the centuries. The object of the new departure was not to make the boys scientific experts, or to start them on careers as such, but the laboratories were part of a liberal education. Boys would be better able to deal with the facts and difficulties of life, would be better citizens, better men, with that equipment, than if left without it, and the school was to be congratulated on the movement. There was not much fear under the present management that the school would become a mere science school. He said that he and Mr. George Yeld were students together, and he thought the school had been richer for the accession of Mr. Yeld.

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The Bishop of Beverley moved a vote of thanks to Professor Clifford Allbutt and Professor Reinold, and in doing so said that the Governors welcomed the additions which had lately been made to the governing body. What they cared about was the reputation of the school, and that it should be able to do its duty

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as- it ought to in the North of England. It had a long and a good record, and they were proud of many who had gone out from amongst them. They thought that boys should be prepared in that school for all conditions of life, and the highest. They trusted that the school would continue to give a good English. education which would fit men for commerce when that was their destiny.

Science had been. taught there already, although in a very unsatisfactory place, a sort of lean-to tent. He intimated that the increase of the boarding accommodation was also being considered.

Alderman Foster seconded the resolution.

The Rev. E. C. Owen, in supporting it, thanked the governing body for their unswerving support, and said that the school was not going to become a science school, but they were going to teach science well, for whatever was done there must be done well, and the whole school must be brought up to date. He thanked the Rev. Canon Watson for his sermon, the Corporation of York for their support, an.d the whole staff of masters.

The resolution was carried with loud cheers.

THE NEW BITILDING.

The opening ceremony was performed by Professor Clifford Allbutt, who was presented with a handsome silver key, which was designed by the architect, Mr. Brierley. In the bow are introduced the Cross Keys of St. Peter and the Rose of York, and on the shank is engraved : " Presented to Professor Clifford Allbutt, M.D., F.R.S., at the opening of the new science building of St. Peter's School, York, June 29th, 1903."

The new building has been erected on the terrace overlooking the playing field, and to the south-west of the schools. It is a rectangular block 92 feet 6 inches long by 38 feet 6 inches wide, and is two storeys in height. It contains on the ground floor physics laboratory, with working benches for twenty-four boys, store rooms, dark room for photography, class room for advanced science, large workshop, with benches for joinery, etc., lavatory, bicycle store, etc., and on the upper floor approached by a stone staircase, large chemical laboratory, with working benches for twenty-four boys, store rooms, lecture theatre, capable of accommo-

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dating eighty boys, masters' combination room, balance room, and provision for open air laboratory work. The arrangements and fittings are of the most complete and up-to-date type, and are in accordance with the Board of Education's requirements. The building is of fireproof construction. It is warmed by hot water on the low pressure system, and there is ample light and ventilation in all parts. The external elevations, though somewhat severe and devoid of ornament, are well proportioned and of good materials, and have a characteristic and substantial look about them. The materials used are hand-made bricks for the general walling, with Whitby stone for the doorway, etc., oak for the woodwork, metal casements, and leaded glazing, for the windows ; and thick light green Westmorland slates for the roofs. The buildings and fittings have been executed from the designs and under the supervision of Mr. W. H. Brierley, architect, of York. Mr. W. Bellerby, of Hungate saw mills, is the builder, and the internal fittings have been supplied by Messrs. Reynolds and Branson, of Leeds. An open fives court has been built in connection with the new block.

The total cost of the building and fittings is about £3,500.

After the ceremony the company were entertained at lunch in the gymnasium, and there was a cricket match between present and past boys during the afternoon

FIVES. ST. PETER'S V. BOOTHAM SCHOOL.

The first pair played on the Bootham Court. We were weakened by the absence of Verini, but as the match was decided on games, we managed to win by four games to three.

First Pair.

Richardson.

L. M. Cadle beat Alexander G. A. Fisher by 3 games to nil. 15-2, 15-6, 15-10.

Our opponents started well, by taking the first two points, but then went all to pieces till the last game, which was very well contested. Both members of our pair played in their best form.

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Second Pair.

C. A. Wood B. FL Pickering lost t o R. Davidson.

H. E. Windle by 3 games to 1. 10-15, 4-15, 12-15, 11-15.

Every game was closely fought. Pickering was the better of our representatives. Wood played excellently.

FIVES HA NDICAP. Preliminary Round.

B. T. Groves (+4). beat K. S. Jones (+4) W. Ingham (+4). beat J. N. Blenkin (+1) First R ound.

R. Elliot (scr.). beat L. M. Cadle (-15) B. G. Laughton (+1). beat G. A. Fisher ( –11) J. A. Kirby (scr.).

B. H. Pickering (-6) beat beat R. C. Todd (+3).

H. E. Windle (-4) E. N. Greenhow (scr.).

M. W. Peters (-3) beat K. S. Jones (+4). beat E. C. Peters (-2) J. N. Blenkin (+1).

S. W . Phillips (-2) beat beat C. Wadsworth (+8).

S. Crowther (+2)

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F R. Stockton Bicycle of Cathay Hound of the Baskervilles. • A Conan Doyle Andrew Lang The Disentanglers Stanley Weyman In King's Byways The Castle Inn 1 1 The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade .

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Dr. Anderson has given his work, Volcanic Studies," and nine volumes of the B.O.P. have also been presented by M. H. T. Roy.

SCHOOL REGISTER AND RECORDS. The following were educated at St. Peter's School, viz :Under the Rev. Isaac Grayson, Headmaster 1793-1827.

Davies, Robert, born 1793, eldest son of Peter and Ann, his wife.

Under Archdeacon Creyke, Headmaster 1827-1837.

Clarke .• • • Cattley, Rev. Canon Richard . • Cattley, Stain forth ..

Robson Donkin, Wm. Fishbourn Barclay, John Ridley...

Holmes .• Smythe, Rev. T. C. Richardson, Rev. John Price, Hall Rokeby Price, His Hon. Judge •• Price (two brothers of the above) Larking • • Lumley . .

Wallace (several of this name) Porter ..

Scott, Rev. George Braithwaite, Rev. W. Andrew, Rev. Wm. Andrew, John Chapman .• Andrew, James •.

• Richardson (Fellow of Trim ..

Coll. Camb.).

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Blaydes •• .• Barber (of Tong Hall, near York, a silversmith in Coney Street, York) Smithson B elcornb e •• •• Newbald, S.W. •• Calder Matterson, Dr. ..

•• Husband, Dr. W. D. (and his brothers) •• Parr (fellow of St. Cath. Coll.

Camb.)

Inman Hildyard •• Richardson (nephew of the Rev. T. Richardson) ..

Bulmer (two brothers of this name) •• Wake, Fenton •• Powell..

Hornby •.

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Barstow (of Garrow Hill, York)

Information as to their Christian names where omitted, and their careers at school and subsequently, will be thankfully acknowledged.

The name of Mr. Wallis as a schoolmaster at York, occurs in records of the year 1639.

In 1341, the Dean and Chapter of York were ordered not to impede Master Wm. de Marton in the management of his grammar schools at St. Leonard's Hospital, York, which had been in existence from time out of mind (Patent Rolls 14, Ed. III.) In 6 Hen. VII., Master W. Burton was one of the two masters at the school of the same Hospital.

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Portraits are still existing of Thomas Morton, Bishop of Durham ; Edmund Guest, Bishop of Salisbury ; Henry- Dodwell ; and Guy Fawkes, who were educated at St. Peter's: In 1828 St. Peter's School was placed under new regulations. The number of free scholars was formerly about 23, but was afterwards considerably reduced.

NOTE. —The authorities for the statements under this heading, will be submitted to a committee, which is to be formed for investigating and publishing the Register and Records of the School. In the meantime, these notes will be continued without reference to their source, so as to indicate the results of information hitherto acquired, and for correction where necessary.

ERRATA.

For Lindgerus Fnisius, ante p. 45, read Lindgerus Frisius.

Calivinus ibid „ Calvinus.

NOTES AND ITEMS. Appointments :— The Rev. J. Raine (0.P.) to be Vicar of Welton with Melton, Brough, Yorkshire.

The Rev. R. M. Ainslie (0.P.) to be Vicar of Childwall, Liverpool.

F. W. Pixley (0.P.) has been elected President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

Surgeon-Lieutenant R. A. Draper (0.P.), 1st E. Riding Royal Garrison Artillery Volunteers, to be Surg.-Lieut. in the Army Medical Reserve of Officers.

Professor Clifford Allbutt was chosen to deliver the Cavendish Lecture to the West London Medico-chirurgical Society on the 26th June.

D. W. R,oy (0.P) has obtained a First class in Part II of the Natural Science Tripos at Cambridge, and a Scholarship of i60 and Prize of books at Sidney Sussex College.

P. St. G. Kirke (0.P.) has obtained a Third class in Part I of the Meehan. Science Tripos at Cambridge.

R. Teasdale (0.P.) has obtained a Third class in the Honour School of Jurisprudence at Oxford.

L. H. Moiser (0.P.) has passed in the 2nd Division of the M. B. examination at London University.

Major C. J. Daniel, D.S.O. (0.P.) has retired from the Army on retired pay.

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An article on " St. Peter's School, York," by Mr. Yeld, appeared in the County Monthly for July.

We regret to observe that the W. B. T. Draper, who was appointed Secretary to the Secretary for War (as noted on p. 151 of the last vol.), is not an Old Peterite, and beg to tender the apologies of our correspondent for the mistake.

The Choir on July 7th, visited James Parker at his new TeaGardens at Wigginton.

The Photographical Society, under the auspices of Mr. Green, on July 6th, went on an excursion to Coxwold.

We omitted to note in our. last issue that a new bell, in place of the old one in the School Hall, has been very kindly presented by J. S. Clark and A. E. Clark (0.P's.).

We congratulate the following on having received their 1st XI colours, B. II. Pickering, E. C. Peters ; also the following on having received their 2nd XI. colours, S. Crowther, K. S. Jones, E. A. Clarkson, C. R. Mossop, R. H. Verini, W. E. Eardley, E. S. N. Bulmer, A. Wilcock, E N. Greenhow, J. N. Blenkin.

April 6th, 1903, at the Hatton Nursing Home, the wife of Robert Martin (0.P.), of Talawakelle, Ceylon, of a daughter.

BIRTHS.—On

On May 28th, 1903, the wife of W. A. Pearson (0.P.), of a daughter.

On June 24th, 1903, the wife of Arthur Peters (0.P.) of a son.

On June 29th, 1903, the wife of the Rev. R. M. Ainslie (0.P.), of a daughter.

July 10th, 1903, at Patrick Brompton Parish Church, by the Rev. R.. E. Pownall, A. Wilkes to Miss J. Ward, of Newton-le-Willows. (Mr. Wilkes was for some years a Master in St. Peter's School, which he left in 1899).

MARRIAGE.—On

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OBITUARY. On June 12th, 1903, CANON JOHN DENTON (0.P.)

On June 22nd, the wife of the BISHOP OF BRISTOL (0.P.) ••■

CONTEMPORARIES The Editors beg to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of the following contemporaries :—Merehistonian, Dunelmian, Dovorian, Sedberghian, Lily, School Magazine (Uppingham), Framlinghamian, Denstonian, Gigglestvick Chronicle, Leodiensian, Wycombe Abbey Gazette, Afalvernian, Danensi an, Bromsgrovian.