The Chapel

The House Society, Ecclesia, was restarted this term and two meetings were held. The second meeting was enjoyed by all attending when Mr. Clark and Mr. Dixon enlightened us on how one spends one's time at university.

We lost Mr. Craine rather unexpectedly half-way through the term, but the House, as a whole, was glad to see him back after an absence of four days.

We say goodbye to A. P. Hothersall and wish him all that we would wish ourselves in the future.

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This term we welcomed 11 Juniors, and we hope their stay with us will be a long and happy one. Seven new House Monitors also joined Lockwood and Day, and we are very grateful for the help of these boys— Martin, Blundy, Harvey, !Pawson, Lancaster and Ward. Blundy, however, decided to leave us half way through the term in favour of accountancy, and our best wishes go with him.

The House enjoyed a successful term both on and off the rugger field. At the beginning of the term we were presented with the Work Cup, although a certain amount of discussion took place over who should have collected it. The House also succeeded, under Barker's guidance, in winning the House Singing Competition, and we thank all those who gave up their time to rehearse. The rugger teams were also very successful, and the Junior House team lost by a narrow margin of six points to a strong Queen's team. Our greatest disappointment, however, was in the Senior House Rugger, where after defeating the Manor 12-11 we lost to a strong Dronfield team by 20 points to three. P. R. Hart had led us well up until the final, where he was sadly missed, and we were captained by T. B. Ward, who has always been a strong member of the team. M. G. Day and S. A. Bough were awarded Senior House colours, and P. T Summers and D. B. Hart were awarded Junior House colours for their efforts in rugby.

We therefore look forward to the Easter Term, where we hope to put up a strong challenge in the athletics and cross-country.

The first special service of the Christmas Term was the Harvest Thanksgiving. Once again members of the Committee of the Young Farmers' Club presented baskets of corn, fruit and flowers, and we are very grateful to Mr. Baldwin for arranging the loan of the baskets and coats; and to those who decorated the Chapel so beautifully. The prayers were composed specially by members of IV Alpha. The next day the harvest produce was taken round by parties of boys to families in York who had been recommended by the Family Service Unit.

The services on Remembrance Sunday followed the pattern of former years. We were glad to welcome the Choir of St. Olave's and their new Chaplain, Rev. M. H. Burden, who conducted the second part of the Service of Remembrance in the morning. 11