The Frank Pick Prize for Design

W. S. Samuels (Wadham) still walks the streets gazing dreamily in any direction but our own, and always contentedly humming a tune to himself. We feel sure that he is planning some terrible evil, and that something "big" is bound to happen before he goes down.

P. R. Sykes (St. Edmund Hall) has now sunk to the obscurity of the engaged man, or can it be that the thought of Finals is worrying him? He was seen at the Soccer Cuppers Final, which his college won, but, much to the disgust of our soccer enthusiast, he seemed to take more interest in two cocker spaniels than in the game.

J. C. M. Rayson (B.N.C.) was also more interested in the spaniels, but then his college were the losers. He owns a very good set of darts and is an expert at the game, as we learnt to our cost on more than one occasion.

D. P. Norwood (Hertford) still pays frequent visits to London to support "Proud Preston". He claimed at the start of term to be economising, but all his good resolutions were soon broken and we are glad to say that he was back to his normal jolly self eventually.

Hoping to hear from "the other place" soon,* and wishing the School every success, * So are we.—Ed.

We remain, Sirs, THE OXFORD OLD PETERITES.

The coming Speech Day and Prize Distribution will see the first award of the 'Frank Pick Prize for Design'. Upon the occasion of the recent unveiling of the Memorial to this distinguished Old Peterite, Art as a School subject took on a new significance in the remembrance of a personality famous for achievement in the hitherto unexplored fields of applied Commercial and Industrial Design. And to perpetuate the significance of Art at St. Peter's School, coupled with the name of its unconscious patron, a group of Old Peterites has endowed this new prize.

It seems fitting that an eminent scholar, known the world over for his writings on every aspect of man's creative activity, and a former friend of Frank Pick, should set the work and make the award on the first occasion of the prize's presentation. We must thank Dr. Herbert Read, D.S.O., M.C., for so willingly accepting this task.

When the writer was talking to him about the particular nature of the prize some time ago, Dr. Read recalled that one item in the furnishings of London Transport's stations caused Frank Pick 9