The Music Society

thereabouts sub sua ferula at this present and some under the ussher there And whereas he was then charged with wast of some woodes about the schole at the Horsefaire belonging to the Deane and Chapiter of this Church and of some houses also belonging thereunto he denyed that he had made any waste at all of any of the houses belonginge to the said schole Yet confessed that he had cut downe an old wallnot tre which was redy to fall and so hath bene wasting this yeres And also an ash tre which was somewhat decayed by meanes of ropes or some other thinges fastened thereunto to uphold the said walnot tree now cut downe the which trees he also confesseth he hath bestowed upon the schole and not pursed any penny thereof to his

owne private use.

Chairman: MR. F. WAINE. Hon. Secretary: T. M. JENKINSON. Choral Society Secretary: B. JONES. Gramophone Librarian: J. G. SLATER. House Representatives:

The Grove: The Manor: Queen's:

R. A. FIELD. A. GOMERSALL.

G. D. PARKIN. T. CHILMAN. R. H. SYKES. B. JONES. The Rise: School House: Temple:

K. BROWN. J. G. SLATER. K. GOSLING. C. J. PARTRIDGE. B. G. WAY. I. T. HUNTER.

This has been a notable term in the history of the Society, for its constitution has been radically changed. Formerly all meetings were open to any member of the School who might care to attend. This frequently seemed to result in a meagre attendance at meetings. Now the Society has a closed membership numbering about forty—as many as can possibly be accommodated in the music room—and a waiting list. The members of the Society have the privilege of attending the Society's meetings and the use of the School's record library and amplifier. The vast increase in attendance at meetings and the improvement in the standard of meetings has been encouraging.

There have been five meetings during the term; two open meetings and three closed. The first was an open meeting held on Saturday, 12th October, at 6-30, in the Lecture Theatre. This took the form of a musical contest between a team picked from the Society's Committee (K. Brown, Slater, Gomersall and Field) and a team from musical non-committee members (Irvin, Howat, Beresford and Young). The Committee were narrowly defeated by 331 to 34.

The second meeting, on Thursday, 31st October, at 12-30, was the Society's "first ever" closed meeting. T. Chilman gave a talk on Concert Hall Acoustics. This proved to be a very interesting talk on a subject of which most members were ignorant. 33