The Chapel Committee met on the 24th March and decided to make donations from the Collections Fund to St. Dunstan's, The S.S.M.'s Missionary work in South Africa, Dr. Barnardo's Homes, The York Boys' Club, and The R.S.P.C.A.
THE LIBRARY Librarian : L. BURGESS, Esq. Library Monitors : E. A. K. DENISON, P. GARBETT, W. J. CLARK, K. A. BOYES, D. HARDISTY, J. F. BLACKBURN. The following books have been added to the Library this term :— Presented by J. C. Lyth, Esq. History of York, 3 vols. (Victoria County History Series)—Page. History of North Riding, 2 vols. (Victoria County History Series) —Page. Presented by the Rev. J. A. Easton. Picturesque Palestine, 3 vols.—Wilson. Presented by the Venerable Archdeacon England. History of Cambridge, 2 vols.—Dyer. Poverty and Progress—Seebohm Rowntree. History of the Jews, 3 vols.—Milman. Juveral—Ed. by Mayor. Aeneid of Virgil—Ed. by Conington. History of the Church of England—H. W. Patterson. The Church in the Roman Empire—Prof. Ramsay. Also : Science at Your Service—Ed. by Bullard. Science Broadcasts—Intr. by G. I. Smith. Avril—Hillaire Belloc. Science of Everyday Life—Buskirk and Smith. The Mediterranean Lands—M. I. Newbigin. Whitaker's Almanac. 1946. The Fanaticks—W. S. Scott. British History in the 19th Century and After—Trevelyan. Imperial Commonwealth—Lord Elton.
THE DEBATING SOCIETY President : THE HEADMASTER. Chairman : Mr. R. CALDER, M.A. Secretary : E. A. K. DENISON. Committee : C. S. SHEPHERD, P. R. SYKES, J. D. SWALE, W. S. SAMUELS, R. L. HUTCHINSON, R. T. W. McDERMID. Owing to the many and varied activities of the Easter term, the meeting, of the Society were once again curtailed to three. The first meeting of the term was held on Saturday, 26th January, when R. T. W. McDermid proposed that " This House believes that there is a deterioration in the fine arts owing to a lack of appreciation by the public." Appreciation of the arts was controlled, he said, by leisure, wealth, talent, security and taste. The speaker went on to illustrate, with appropriate examples, how much the public were now lacking in those controlling factors. He ended by showing how the war had speeded the decline of the arts. 14
