AGS Magazine October 1900

THE ©ram.mar School trraga3ine .

Vol.IV.

OCTOBER, 1900. No. 3.

"T1-mdaily round, the tomm.ontask" has once more commenced- the oldjog-trot-and yet weought tobe thankful forit. Holidays after all do get abit sickening eYenonDee or Donside, but how anyone could summon up enough en~rgy to go to the Faroe Islands or anywhere like that quitebafflesus. HoweYer,we are back oncemore, someof us, alas! for the last time. Let us then try to do a little good tothe old place before we lea,e it.

Wemust not forget to say a word about the subject of our fr?ntispiece. Admiral Sir Arthur Farquhar, K.C.B., sailor son of a sailo: sire, is well known to us all, and 1is contributions have more than once appeared in our ,f ag In this number we haYe a sketch of his career, and, after reading it, it must be admitted that few ehn,~howsuch a record of sen-ice to their country. :May t e Gram." turn out many more like Sir Arthur!

f We particularly desire to thank lfr. 'llax Pemberton pr sparing us time to send us his message. Of :Mr. d:~~erto~'s claims as a writer for the public at large we for btdesn~, nor should wedare, to speak, but asa writer oyshe1seasily in the front rank.

Bt>r-;;noti~r ill:1s~rious contribl~tor is ?~r Willia~1 Bisset the(:· ir ~1lham holds a l11ghpos1t10nas Speaker of "'orkhpefegislative A.~sembly,yet inthe midst ofhis hard e as not forgotten the old School.

There is much talk of a Cadet Corps for the Grammar, and, as )Ir. J. ~1. Bulloch says, "·why not?" General Chapman and Colonel )Iathias, from both of whom weha,e recei,ed letters on the subject, are brimful of information upon it. If we could- and why shouldn't we?-raise a Corps, it would be a benefit to the School in more ways than one. Let us try, anyhow.

'l'he Sports ha,e come and gone, and ha,e been a great success. We would offer our congratulations to those who have distinguished themsel,es - and these are not few. To the Games Committee, and especially to ~Ir. Ward, the thanks of the School are due for the " police" arrangements and the organising of the proceedings generally. To Dr. Kelly, )Ir. :lfackie, and :lfr. James Dandson we are under an obligation for their senices. Mr. :Mackie beguiled the "waits "- which were ,ery few and far between, by the way-by telling a few favoured members of the Committee some of his inimitable stories. We regret to say that cameras were plentiful-did we say "regret" ?-well, we do in one way, but in another we are glad, for photography ne,er did anyone any harm yet. unless he was the victim of the snap-shooter.

Perhaps the prizes went rather much in one direc~ion. but that is a thing which is difficult to avoid-especiallr when weha,e one or two athletes head and shoulders aboY!! the rest of the School. One fellow deserves more than a mere pat on the back for starting in more than one e,ent not to win but to make the number requisite for the awarding of the prize. That sort of thing shows an unselfish spirit, and contrasts very very fa,oura bly w1th some occurrences which are far too common at Sports-: not only School Sports, but others as well. "Palma11i qui mentit ferat."

We ha,e once more the pleasure of welcoming twon1"" masters- )Ir. Joseph Moncrieff )forrison, M..A., and ) :r Hector G. Duthie, M..,L Best wishes for the success both!

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The _ session of the Literary and e a mg £Sir promises well, as the syllabus will show. In room 0tr~n, William Geddes, Sir .Arthur Farquhar was electe~a Pt )Ir. and, it being decided to ha,e an Hon. Vice-Pres1dent be Middleton was appqinted unanimously. We are 0

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farnured with the presence of se,eral F.P.'s at om· meetings, including two former Presidents. It is to be hoped that the Upper School will attend well. By the way,what a number of the YII. are office-bearers! Quite phenomenal !

The Reading Room has been newly upholstered, and the seats ham been screwed to the floor. It is really a great improvement, and the VII. and ""iT can now edify themseh-esin peace.

We are again indebted to 1Ir. Pope for the designs of theblock which appears in our pages.

The wire netting round the walls :facing Leadside Road and Albert Place is a great blessing, serving the double purpose of keeping balls in and intruders out.

The result of the Rector's Prize Competition is now to hand. The 1redal for the list of Poems was not awarded, as the standard of merit was not sufficiently high. The 1Iedal :for the best chronological list of Xo,els goes to ,John )I. Robertson, whom weheartily congratulate on his success.

"The School rejoices! " J. C.Lyon has returned tous. To_the 1st XV. and the Literary and Debating Society he1squ_iteatower ofstrength, and weare one and all glad toseehimback again.

. Our new Gym. is a splendid place, both externally and ~~hn_al17, and our only matter for regret in connection p ..it 1s that Instructor )lunro has left us for another thsition... Some of our young :friends will perhaps miss Gye iarn1har single stick. In these new premises our rnnastic Classesshould dogood work.

'\V'or{he1new workshop, too, is admirably adapted :for the one . 0t the modern Side. ,~re understand that the old 18 0 be made into a Cycle Shed. Quite time too!

11ev;;fY can't something be done with the grounds? In Inceafplacesthe turf is worn quite away, and the appearthereo· thebare ground isthe re,erse oflovely. Ofcourse ths that path that trespassers haYe gradually made, ere are patches in various parts of the big field.

Couldn't grass seed be sown during the Holidays, and couldn't someone roll it for a change? Oh, for that new field!

Much interest is felt in the recent outbreak of the Poetry Plague in one of the Higher Classes. Epic and Lyric Poetry (?) is being turned out wholesale. One of our principal men in the athletic sphere has e,en succumbed to the disease, and his masterpiece begins :" 0 need I--" Enough! On second thoughts we shall not quote.

Mr. J. N. Carmichael desires us to thank all those who assisted him in his Paris Tom contest. ,Ve congratulate }Ir. Carmichael on his success, and the Gazette on this ,ery ''happy thought."

Mr. Carmichael will gi,e a lecture under the auspices of the Literary and Debating Society on the 24th, "·hen we expect a "bumper" house.

Dr. :lloir has retired, but by no means into idleness_: we have once more the pleasure of a contribution from his able pen. 1Iay the School e,er remember the doctor, and the doctor ne,er forget the School.

As will be seen in another place the:llasters' }fatch has come and gone; and many were the criticisms of the playing of )Ir. So-ancl-So, who "Wasseen in the cricket field for the first time. }fr. ,Vard and :llr. Reid and one or tw~ more were quite familiar figures in the field, sothe intere\ centred in those who are not. This match should be kep up; it is really ,ery interesti ng.

A vote 0£ thanks is due to those members 0£ the Game: Committee who filled in the old water-jump and dug 0 ~ 6 the n~w. H_it were known how many ~ncihow sttong tbe the difficulties they had to fight, theu labours wo~l 11y very much appreciated. It was not a rose garden in a sense whatever.

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The Footer season is once more at hand, an Id b'f will come, no doubt, the usual invasion 0£ the 1e keeP. hordes of "young barbarians ." It is not enough fun ol outside the touch-line: the rope is not there for the t tJil the thing, and the so;,th side of it is the side neares School.

Mr. \V. B. 1Iackie, our Janitor, has left us. He was always most courteous ancl obliging, and his successor promises to be equally so. Our best wishes go with him.

There is a rule about cycling in the grounds, and we hopeit will be carefully observed, as wehave only two legs, and do not wish to be maimed for life while peacefully rounding a corner with head bent in meditation.

·where is the loyalty of our F.P.'s? We hear that instead of joining their own Football Clubs, some have of late gone to other teams. Let us hope this is not true.

The XY. promises well. A great many tried warriors are again to take their places in its ranks, and we also expects some recruits from other schools. May it fulfil ourexpectations !

Poor F.P. Club! Like somebody-or-other's cocoa thou hast many imitators! The latest is a new-born babe, and has as one of its raisons d'e"tJ"e "the mutual advancement 0£ its members in the world," or something to the same effect! This is what we should call the co-operative system z)(u- eti:cellence! THE S"XORER crRED.

Tread softly: mind your head Against the cubicle wall. We cannot stand it more; vVe'll stop his beastly snore Once and for all.

I'll take the piece of so!lp, And 31ou can hold the towel; I'll cram it in, And you can then Suppress the howl.

A scuffleand a scream, And silPnce then ; And now no more Is heard a snore In dormit'ry ten.

STF.F.

Arma 'i:irumquecano. .And the editor tells me that there is a general desire in the School to form a Cadet Corps. The military spirit must be in the air, and our School has not escaped the infection. Xe,er doweremember somany commissions in Her Majesty's Service being given in so short a period to oldGrammarians.

Now, let us see. First we have James .A.. Butchart, late Captain of the School, and now Lieutenant in the .Artillery. If he takes as prominent a position in the service as he did on the football field, he will be distinguished indeed. By the time these lines are in print he will have joined his regiment in Moultan, India.

Then we have Robert S. Machray, M.A., B.L., whohas doffed the wig and gown and donned the scarlet and blue of the Garrison .Artillery. Our School will always have a kindly recollection of "Bob," for he was a well-known figure on our concert platforms, and was e,er ready to oblige us. His help in "making-up" for our amateur theatricals was invaluable.

Next comes Clement Cobban, who has also been given alieutenancy inthe .Artillery. ,Ve remember him wellas a "don" in mathematics, and he was not behind on the playing fields..

Kenneth Crawford, who left us but the other ~a~',_ 15 now Lieutenant in the Inniskillinrr Fusiliers (}Iihtia). His late father was once Colonel of that historic regiment. His brother was also a subaltern in the Fusiliers, and.w~s wounded in South Africa at Pieter's Hill. Another JS JU the Imperial Yeomanry.

h the .Arthur Dymock, late of Kemnay, has also c osen the noble profession of arms. He has been gazetted to Royal .Artillery, and proceeds to ,Voolwich and Shoebury· ness to undergo the regulation course of training.

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Now comes an interesting group of brothers. The Robertsons, of Peterhead-A. W., Arthur, and Randallare soldiers all. "A. '\V." went to the front as Lieutenant in the Volunteer Gordon Highlanders. Poor chap, however, he caught enteric, and was invalided home. Randall, a stalwart six-footer, is a trooper in the Middlesex Yeomanry. And Arthur is a cadet at Sandhurst. Not bad for one family; eh, Grammarians?

We hear that Arnold and Glanville :Milne are in the South African Light Horse, while Jim Stewart, who was wounded at Spion Kop, is in Methuen's Horse.

Dum haec in Africa ge1·iintur, as Caesar would say, our School is well to the front in China. Brigadier-General Reid, O.B., has charge of the 'Third Brigade for China. He might send us a few Boxer Harmony Fists, pickled preferably, to adorn the shelrns of our :Museum.

Then Lieutenant-Colonel J. R. L. :Macdonald, R.E., C.B., of Uganda fame, goes out in charge of the balloon d~partment. In the Celestial Kingdom he ought to be in hisproper element.

We have tried our best to induce the British Consul Swa~ow, Mr. J. Scott, an Old Boy, to write for our agazme, but he is so busy that he has no time.

~e~ander Reid, who was known in our day at School 8 s ~Ihabolus," is the manager of the Peking :Mining hynd1cate,and had a series of thrilling adYentures before T· reached a'place of safety at Tientsin. According to a h 1 ~es correspondent, he is regarded by the Chinese as ""hingbeen the cause of no rain falling over the large area bl e1ehe wasprospecting, and so they are thirstino- for his 00 • Our "foreign deYil" escaped, however. 0

\'e ~n_other "diabolus extraneus " (pardon the Latinity, Ba~tenth ), R. R. Hynd, of the Hong-Kong & Shanghai a po 1 .~~ Co.,who is our only subscriber in China, was in 1''orce81 io~ of considerable danger till the International arrived.

Sir Th elected P 0~as Sutherland, M:.P., K.O.M:.G., has been resident of the ·China Association.

0£ course, our fellows know that we number on our honour roll an Admiral, a General, an Archbishop, several Very Reverends and Right Reverends, to say nothing 0£ :K.C.11.G.'s, &c., but how many know that one 0£ our Old Boys is a distinguished member of the Jesuit Order? We refer to Father Humphrey, whose name is on our walls as First Bursar. ,Ve notice in the London press that he preached an eloquent sermon atthe )femorial )Iass held for the late Empress of Austria. The sen-ice was attended by the Austrian Ambassador and suite, as well as by other representatives of Catholic countries.

Harry J. Watt, )I.A., has been appointed assistant to the Professor of Logic in the UniYersity of Aberdeen.

Peter Chalmers :Mitchell, )1.A., F.Z.S., will soon issue his "Life of Huxley.''

G. lrilne, who was Du:s: in 1894, has scored a signal success in taking the 7th place in the late India Civil Sen-ice examination.

Walter A. Smith, two letters from whom we publish in this issue, was in the South African Mounted Police up to last year. "\Vhen the war began the S.A.)LP. were united with the Southern Rhodesian Mounted Force, under Plumer, and with him Smith was at the relief of )Iafekinr After the relief he was under General Baden-Powell. Ili! brother, Fred. N. Smith, was in Bulawayo for severa years, b_utat the beginning 0£ the war joined the Sout~e_r£ Rhodesian Mounted Force. A few days before the 1eb\ of Mafeking he was seized with enteric fever and was sen back to Bulawayo.

We must now turn our thoughts to sadder the~es. • ncr For we mourn the loss of several young and prom1s 1 • " Grammarians. The Rev. J. Gordon ,Vatt was Supenn· tendent of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Ile ':a! a distinguished student with us, where he took a lK~inp_ part in the Debating Society. His career at :go£ College, where he was the most distinguished gradull. ut. his year, and at O:s:ford, was exceptionally bn 1jar· While at Oxford he won the Pusey and Ellerton Scho.cal ships, as well as the Denyer and Johnston Theo~og\hl' Scholarships, and graduated with a First Class in Honours School of Theology.

Charles Fraser Leslie, the second of four brothers (all Grammarians), has died in Den,er, Colorado. After he left the Grammar School, the influence of the Earl of Lauderdale got him an appointment in the Eastern Telegraph Company at Gibraltar. .After a few years' stay there, he decided to go to Canada, where he receiYed an appointment in a bank, subsequently rising to be manager of the ,Vinnipeg Bank. An insidious lung trouble was the cause of his premature death. He always maintained akeen interest in the welfare of his old school.

Frederick Taylor Simpson, trooper in Plumer's Horse, died at Gaberones, South .Africa, from wounds recei,-ed in action. He was in au important position in the Standard Bank of South Africa before enlisting. His commanding officer,Colonel Spreckley writes-"He was such a willing fellow, and came away from a position of comfort to join asatrooper. Hewas a very coolfellow, and asbraYe asa mancould be." Higher praise there could scarcely be.

Dr. Rodger, a highly-respected man, ancl a distin!;;'Uished physician,died during the holidays. Hetook part in the Franco-German campaign of 1870, and had several foreign decorations conferred on him.

Alan Francis 1fackenzie, Captain of the XY. (1895-96), 6thonthe list at Sandhurst , attached first to the 2nd ,Vest R_idingRegiment, and then to the 1st1fiddlesex Regiment, diedofenteric at Jubbulpore, India, on ~fay 13th.

".Alas, poor Alan ! So gentle and unassuming, so cheerful of heart, so steadfast in work, in influence and examplesohonest and sogood- verily you were one ofthe salt of the Earth." Such was the opinion of his house1aster at Bedford Grammar School, where he attended for at out a year after leaving us. It is ours also. Sans pew· e sans1·ernoche might well be the words written over the graveofAlan Mackenzie.

~1.Weregret the loss of John Simpson, who was drowned 011t1\0 bathing in the Don at Fintray. Our sympathy goes 0 the bereaved parents.

OLD BOYS I:N SOUTH AFRICA.

Trrn following is a list o:fsome of our Old Boys who have served in South Africa. There must be many more than are mentioned here, but we ha,e no means of discovering them:-

Bisset, A., Imperial Yeomanry.

Brown, Trooper Hector, Cape )1ounted Police. Brown, Trooper Harry, Cape Mounted Police. Duthie, Lieut. Robert A., Local Yolunteer Royal Engineers.

Farquharson, Trooper P., with Colonel Plumer. Johnstone, Charles P., with Colonel Plumer. Lawson, Pri;-ate G.0., 1stSerYiceCompany, Volunteer Gordon Highlanders.

:Mackenzie,Trooper i1IalcolmR., Imperial Light Horse (killed at Ladysmith).

Macpherson, Printe G. S., 1st Senice Company, Volunteer Gordon Highlanders. ~filne, Corporal .A.le:s:.,Railway Pioneer Regiment. Milne, Lieut. J. Glan,ille ,South African Light Horse. hlorphie, E. ..William, with )Iethuen's Force.

Polson, Trooper Edgar.

Robertson, Lieut. A. ,V., 3rd Senice Company, Volunteer Gordon Highlanders. Robertson, Trooper Jolm K., in Rhodesia. Robertson, Trooper John, South African Police. . f Simpson, Lieut. F. T., with Colonel Plumer (died 0 wounds). .

Smith, Trooper Frederick, Rhodesian Mounted Poh_ce. Smith, Trooper Walter, British South African Police. Stewart, James, in 2'.Iethuen'sHorse. Thomson, F., returned home with enteric.

Professor Ogston, H.:M:.Surgeon-in-Ordinary in !3cotlaocl, volunteered for Medical Service inSouth Afnca.t the William Ironside Moir, hl.B., Oh.B., Civil Surgeon ° Forces inSouth Africa. . S uth Dr. James Simpson, CiYilSurgeon to the Forces in ° Africa.

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A. SYDKEY TARRAS, :formerly Editor of this Magazine, and Secretary ofthe Debating Society.

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To many in our Upper School, as well as many now at College,the news ofthe death ofSydney 'rarras must haYe come as a rude shock. Although he left the School in 1897, the memory of his brilliant career with us lingers still. Entering in 1893, he left our ranks :fouryears later loaded with many honoms, medals, distinctions, and a bursary of£30. During his school career he suffered much frombad health,but his indomitable will power rose aboYe theills ofthe body. In him was a notable example of the conquestof mind oYerniatter. Although literary pursuits , farbeyond those of the School curriculum, engaged most ofhis time, he was no recluse. He regularly played for the School XY. Cricket and tennis he also enjoyed. It Was,howeYer,in the field of criticism whE>rehe sho-wedto greatestadYantage. Fools he could not suffer gladly. We jere closelyconnected with him when he waseditor ofthis {agazine, and weremember well how cleYerly and tersely e_wouldsum up the merits ordemerits ofany article subhuttedtohim for publication. EYenin his schoolboy days e was_ashrewd judge ofhuman nature. :l[ental ana~ys~s, fiarchmg and luminous, was eYenthen his characteristic. was delightful to listen to him, as, with sparkling eye and • d" animated gesture, he would parody and scornfully i1 8llt the story beloved ofthe Snap-bit reader. That his R\e ectual bent lay in this direction is attested by his d~ tequ~nt career at College, where, among many other ~s 1nctions,he took first-class honours in English LiteraA.be and History, the first and only award of the kind in eithrdeen. We anticipated a brilliant career for him l>ise\~t th~ bar or in the quieter regions of letters, but has aiter visum est. At the early age of twenty-two he one ghne from us, and we are left to wonder Yainly why 8 ould be taken and the other left.

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS OF F.P.'s.

TIIE RELIEF OF lliFEKIXG.

THE two following letters ha,e been recei,ed from Walter A. Smith, who -wasat School from 1888 to 1896:-

DE.-1.R 11.---, PrTSAKI, May24,1900. You will no doubt ha,e felt anxious at receiving no letter from me for the last three weeks, but it was quite impossible for me to write as we had to move nearer :llafeking, and were therefore cut offfrom all communication until we had relieved it. Of course you will have heard the welcome ne-wsof the relief long before you get this letter, and the march into )lafeking on the 17th, after a day's ha.rd fighting. On. the 14th we made towards Jacobsdal, where we met General :llahon with 1,500 men and one battery of R.H.A., who came from the south in fourteen days, from Vryburg (not a bad march), to mee,t our column (Plumer's). After resting for a day, we marched on:llafeking (we-British South African Policeacting as ad-..-anceguard for both columns), and ca.mein touch with tlie Boers about on.e o'clock. Then followed the only real engagement we ha,e been in -with success. The Boers tried to make a stand, but it was useless, although they did their best to keep us back, and kept up the fighting until dark. The same night we marched on, and arTived in :llafeking at two o'clock a.m., amidst great rejoicing of the inhabitants. Women and children ':ere waiting for us !o come even at that hour in the ~orningd The same morn.mg we clrow the Boers from Mafekmg, I can tell you they did go for dear life. ,Ve ,,ere on h sorry we could not follow them, but our horses were a played out. You will see the accounts iu the papers they haYe su:fferedin l!afeking, and I can tell you it 15 quite correct. You should ha,e seen the contrast betwt£ the fellows in )fafeking and the fellows in the_ reit'd column. The :fello-wsin :llafeking were ,eI'Y thin U:~n white, due totheir sufferings during the siege. The ~n has also su:ffered-large holes, &c., having been blo;T fe· nearly every house. The day after the relief w~left ~be king and brought in the first train, which ar:n,ed 01ted 24th (Queen's Birthday) with provisions, and so corupe the relief. . . . }.[£eking, We are at present at Pitsam, ten miles from,-, ~-ythinl,t but leave to-night on pa.trol for Zeerust. E,e

seemsto be going on well down south with the troops, who have had many Yictoriessince I last wrote. I am enclosing a siege note :for 10s., also a Maf.eking Mail, which was printed during the siege.

WooDSTOCK, June 11, 1900.

DEAR :lI-- -,

Just a few lines to let you know I am well, and that things are going on wry satis£aotorily all o,er the country. ,Ve are now sixty miles inside the Trans,aal, and are collecting arms. Zeerust (town) gaYe up their arms without any resistance, and only seemed too pleased to do so. ,,e hope to be in Rusten burg to-morrow, and expect they will gi-e up their arms there without any fight. From Rustenburg we expect to go to Johannesburg, disarming the Boers as we go. You will, of course, ha,e heard that Johannesburg and Pretoria were taken, and that the war was practically at an end. Lord Roberts has donehis work well, and deserYesgreat credit.

You will be pleased to hear that we are now IiYing on the £at of the land-turkeys, geese, £owls, oranges, &c. Thispart ofthe wuntry is wry rich in £arms. It has some 0£ the finest £arms in the Trans,aal, so we do not want £or anything. Kow I shall h::ise to close as the mail is just lea,ing.

The following has been receirnd from another Old Boy at the" Front" :-

• . . Since I wrote to you last I ha,e rejoined my bat_teryagain, and we are now at Pretoria, in the barracks whichformerly belonged to the Transvaal State Artillery. . :lly battery was sent out last week with a battalion of m!antry and some mounted troops to meet Baden-Powell. ~"\e left Pretoria on a Saturday, marched all that day, all Bunday, and the best part of :llonday, and then we met aden-Powell on his way :from ~fafeking. 1\Te all gaYe three cheers for him, out on the open Yeldt, with nothing ut~uge hills surrounding us.

1'ext day my section (that is, two guns) and some Inoun.ted infantry had to lea,e the camp and go to a :pposedBoer laager. I must say I did enjoy tha.t little h~t ; wecame across some:farmsbelonging to Boers who In dee~fighting against us, and started looting and comfirs~ ~ring anything we could lay our hands on. The 8.11.d tlnng I came across was a sack of mealie meal, and I another fellow filled our sleeping caps up with this

stu:fr. Next we found a lot of hens ·and chickens, and had a nice run after them. We didn't let them go until my friend and I had caught :fivebetween us. We got 1 lb. of fl.ourserved out to us instead of biscuits, so that we could make anything weliked. I got some water, mixed it with this fl.ourand mealie meal, made it into,dough, and then putit on a £refor about twenty minutes till itwas cooked; so that night I hacl boiled chicken and bread £or dinner. You would haYe laughed to see the poor £armers watching us commandeering their chickens and things. We then had a general look round the £arm, and r.ame upon the orange and lemon orchard. Of course weclimbed the trees and helped ourselves freely without further orders. When we came back we brought two Boer guns with us, one a 7-pounder, the other a 9-pounder. This march at least I enjoyed very much.

K.RUOERSDORP, July 10, 1900,

We left Irene on Sunday, the 8th, for Krugersdorp, intending just to lie about a day or two, and take in arms from the Boers. Hearing on Monday that there w.~s a force in the ncinity, we left pretty early in the momul:g, intending to go about 15 mile.s, but about our ninth ?111e three shots in quick succession were heard down 1n a hollow, so the order was soon given £or our three guns to prepare for action.

.• ,Ve (Volunteers) were " gun escort" that day, so, of course, where:verthe guns went we had to go. . Wewent with them £orabout a mile, and when nearing a small kopje the Boers opened a sharp :fireon us ~d our guns. Still we went on, and succeeded in gaining our •·goal," a small kopje, where we got orders to :fireon t~f enemy, whose intentions were to destroy our _guns 1t possible. 1'Te kept up the :firefor a considerable time, bud some of our gunners had got badly wounded, as -1:heyh;e no shelter whatever. Out of the twelve gunner~ nme wuld wounded, and one of our officers. On our kopJe we co d blaze away and be perfectly safe. Later, the Boers op~n~Jt a cross £re on us, but when they tried that we ~s "sangers" or small stone shelters :forourselves. Oig fnel were now standing with no one to fire them, so our 0 _\,n asked men to volunteer to drag them out of the "ay' \fe men did so,and tried their best, but it was ofno use. ht kept up a hot fire from 12 till 5 o'clock, when we th0u~e they were falling back, but one of our fella~~ ga'l"':o \l"B alarm that the Boers were charging our position,

opened such a £re upon them that no human being could live in. For ten minutes,, about a couple 0£ hundred rifles "ere being fired as fast as men were able, the rifles getting so hot that they could not hold them, men shouting £orcool ones and more ammunition.

A.bout7 o'clock a message came to us from the General, saying-" Return to camp.-Roberts.'' We started about 8o'clock, and got into camp about 3 a.m., very tired. We had only three casualties in our company. lrethuen is expected to join us to-day, or very soon. Captain Younger was killed in this action.

CHARLES N. G. }IILXE, 1st V.B. Gordon Righlnuders.

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LETTERFROl\fMR.MAXPEMBERTON.

"HEATH

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HAMPSTEAD, July ,th, 1900.

DE.-\.R EDITOR,

A Cadet Corps by all means. The day is coming when every Briton must know how to hold a gun you Scotsmen ha,e shown us the way right nobly, and young Scotland is not going to let his fathers get ahead of him. "\"Ve want the heart and thewill and the good right hand to keep the Empire. Some day, you fellows will be running the Imperial Show-don't forget that. Learn your drill, and make yoursel,es men- it's a better way of playing than sucking one's thumbs on a rail fence. The Germans say we play too much, but that's all nonsense, as long as weplay the right way.

I'd like to know Aberdeen, because it's near the place where the golf comes from. In England we begin that game too late. I find it's easy enough to hit the ground, but somehow,unlike the Speaker in the House, I can't keep my eye on the ball-and when you don't keep your eyeon the ball it goesone better.

Yours faithfully,

SKETCH OF .AN OLD GRAMMAR SCHOOL BOY'S LIFE.

ADMirtAL Sm .A1tTIIUR F.-1.RQUII.-rn, K.C.B., son of Rear.Admil'al 8ir Arthur Farquhal', K.C.13., K.O.H., was born in January, 1815, and recei,ecl the rudiments of his education under the auspices of Professor Paul, of King's College, OldAberdeen. In 1826,he went to the Grammar :School, .Aberdeen, where the learnecl Dr. ;o.Ieh-in was headmaster, and where he remained until the autumn session of 1828, when he joined the )Iarischal College, under Professor 13rown,and in the following spring he was appointed a Na,al Cadet in Her Majesty's Sen•ice, and joined the Seringapatam frigate (Captain the Honourable William Wildegrass), then fitting at Chatham for foreign service. In her he served for three years in the South America andPacific stations, visiting the South Sea Society Islands. In 1832 the Seringapatam returned to England, and the vessel being paid off, he was sent to the "\Vest Indies station, in which he sened in various ships until the autumn of 1835, when he returned to England and passedhis examination for Lieutenant. In the spring of 1836he was appointed as}fate (or Sub-Lieutenant) to the Asia,line-of-battle ship, and afterwards joined the Thalia at the Cape of Good Hope, bearing the flag of Sir Francis Collier,K.C.B., in which ship he returned to England, and was appointed in the summer of 1838 to the Princess Charlotte, bearing the flag ofAdmiral Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.B. He was present at the operations on the coast of Syria, when :Mehemet Ali was in rebellion against his so,ereign the Sultan of Turkey, ancl saw a good deal of boat service, witnessed the fall of the fortress of Jebdil, and finally was present at the bombardment and capture 0 ,~ the celebrated fortress of S. Jean d'.Acre (which under Sir Sydney Smith, during the French war, had defied the po~ve~ of Xapoleon). During the bombardment .the Principal magazine was blown up, and 2,000 Egyptians ~stroyecl, besides a large quantity of ammunition and l ell. This was the closing scene of the war with 0~eh~metAli, and, being promoted for service to the rank Lieutenant, he returned to England, went through a Flurse of gunnery on board the Excellent, was appointed I ~gLieutenant toRear-Admiral Bowles,commanding the thishstation, and in the autumn of 1844 was promoted to erank ofCommander. In 1846he was appointed to the

command 0£ a handsome Symonite brig the Albatross, and was employed £ora year in suppressing the sla,e trade on the coast 0£ Africa, and captured several slavers-one with 650 slaves on board. l<'rom the coast 0£ Africa he was ordered to the East Indies and China station, and whilst there was appointed to command an expedition against the Malay and Dyak pirates of Borneo, and in conjunction with the Rajah of Sarawak, Sir James Burke, native allies, and East India Company's steamer Nemesis, caught a large flotilla of piratical prahus returning from a piratical and head-hunting expedition, and upwards of 100 of their prahus were destroyed or captured, and many of the pirates killed. For this sernce he was promoted to the rank of Post Captain, and received an acknowledgment of his services from the Government . In 1854, shortly after the commencement of the Russian war, he was appointed to the command of the Malacca, the :first vessel in the service fitted with high-pressure engines, and, after some preliminary trials, the Malacca was ordered to the Black Sea, but, unfortunately, in proceeding down Channel, he met with an accident while endea,ouring to prevent a collision (breaking his leg). He had to be taken to Raxter Hospital, and was unable to resume command 0£ the Malacca for three months, after which he did not reach the shores of the Crimea, but was ordered on service to the West Indies, in which an epidemic 0£ yellow fever carried off a-third 0£ his men and officers; and on his return to England the Malacca was ordered to the Mediterranean, and sent by the Admiral to protect British interests at Naples during the absence 0£ our Minister, and when_the city was in a very disturbed state. One night a Neapohtan frigate blew up within two cables' length of the Malacca, and many lives were lost by the explosion. In the summe£ 0£ 1857 the l\falacca was ordered home, and paid out 0 commission. In the beginning of 1859 Captain Farqu~ar was appointed to the Victory as Flag Captain to Adnu~·a l Sir William Bowles, who hoisted hisflag asCommander-inChief at Portsmouth, and, on the Admiral retiring £r~i_n the command, he was appointed Flag Oapta~n to ir Rodney Mundy in the Hannibal on the l\fod1t~rraneaj station, and, whilst at Naples, he witnessed th~ tnunttt entry of Garibaldi into that city, and the flight 0 ,. t : King and Royal Family, and shortly afterwards ' 1 ~i°t Emmanuel entered Kaples as the King of all Italy, amic8 1 the greatest enthusiasm of the people. In the snmn:er 0 a 1860 Admiral Sir Rodney l\fundy was ordered "'1th '

squadron to the coast of Syria, in order to bring pressure to bear on France, which Power had sent troops to quell disturbances between Druses and Christians. From Syria the Hannibal returned to Malta, and Sir Rodney Mundy resigned his command owing to bad health, and shortly afterwards the Hannibal was paid out of commission. In J863 Captain Farquhar was appointed to the command of the ·west Coast of Scotland, which he held for three years, and in 1866 he obtained his flag rank. In the autumn of 1869 he was appointed to the command of the Pacific station, which he helcl until the spring of 1873, when he returned to England, and, being promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral, hestruck his flag. In 1888hewasmacleafull Admiral,and the same year was appointed Commander-inChief at Plymouth, which he held until 1890, when he hacl to retire from actfre service on account of age. In 1895 Her Majesty was graciously pleased to confer on him the honour of knighthood, and conferred on him the Order of a Knight Commander of the Bath. Since 1891 Sir Arthur has lived in retirement at Drumnagesk, near Aboyne. Sir Arthur has two sons ancl one grandson. in the army in South Africa, and three sons and two grandsons in the Navy.

"WHEN WE WERE BOYS."

TnE HoN. Sm WILLIAMBISSETBERRY.

T1IJ~Rox. Srn WILLIAMBrssET BERRY (F.P.), Speaker of the Cape House o.f Assembly, to whom we sent our congratulations upon the hon.our Her Majesrtylately conferred 1l_P~n him sent us the following very interesting letter, whichwereproduce verbatim:-

S I wish to thank you for your very kind note of June 1st. 0 many years ham parted me from the olclSchool that I seemunable to write any sentences that could interest you ortheboys who now are the "tenants entail" of the places nme,,of us occupiecl once upon a time. yet eYery "Old • t oy, whether of the .A.. G. S. or of any other School, ought h" have some pride in being remembered or thought of•in 1 18 old haunts. To few of us can it be l:,rivento shed a ~ktr·~on the schools or colleges of our early clays: but I eit he must be a poor old boy indeed who could allow

those schools or colleges to drop out of his memory. Rather more than 50 years have passed since I, a very raw lad indeed, entered the School o,nthe "Hill," under one of the best and kindest ofmasters-Alexander Beverley. Three years under his teaching ushered me into the presence of Melvin-the well-remembered "Grim," a& we with a mixture of affection and reverence called him. An editor like yomself may be interested in one of the diiferences between " then " and "now" which yo1u typographicallyexcellent School ,Magazine recalls to my mind. "Then" we, too, had our Mag., but, alas 1 there was no printer and publisher even in the "brave" to,m1 possessed with courage enough to "bring it out." Moreover, "Yost" and Remingtons had made no signs; so tlmt each contribution had to be read by the venturesome in the handwriting of its author. Even these difficulties did not stifle the young idea. As an " editor" in those days I can vouch for it that some young fellows sobeginning did thereafter achieve distinction as literary men, as journal ist5, as artists, and as preachers. How cleady that " cut" in the, centre of the Mag.' s cover brings back the vision of the old place! And that miniature belfry oYer the main entrance of the " Public School" specially remintls me that among my "hands" was o,ne whom we proudly clubbed om· poet! In.to what more perfect form that "hand" metamorpho~ed as the years brought him the philosophic mind, addmg strength to his thought and dignity to his diction I kn?"' not; for Robert Harpe, ploughman's son, from the parish of Birse, swam only too soon out of my ken. Robert, _bes; of any of us, could tmn a sonnet, but his forte was ,abit 0 rhyme in the broadest Doric as "she was spoke" in the early fifties. Very shaky had that belfry becomP; somuch so that the " Town Councillors," the ever gene,i·ouspatron£ and managers of the School, inhibited the "pulling" 0 it. \Vere we, three hundred young rag-a-muffins that we were, to sit quiet untler this ordt"l.'for the silencing o£ te instrumeint which for some 300 years had gathered : 1d youth of Bon-Accord by its clapper True, the rope :s been abstracted by the obedient janitor-John "''.3'8 t~e name you may be sure. But there were stones in tt r streets in those,days; and it was not a very difficult m£ {" for eYery youthfol Grammar ian to collect a "bollllet 1~be The consequent clanging of the bell anclthe clatter O'J1 der roof were so hideous that " Grim " issued an order :'1fded a penalty that the stoning was to cease. We all itbcrt except one whom Melvin caught red-handed. 0

Harpe's ma_qn1t1n opus appeared in my "Afag. It was founded on this incident., had a tremendous vogue, until, while being surreptitiously read by a youth while he ought to ha.-e been listening to an analysis 0£ a bit 0£ Virgil, it £ell into the hands 0£ }fehin himself, whose astonishment you may fancy whrn I tell you that he figured in the piece somewhat too pla.inly-

" Ae day as we gaed oot to play, Auld Grim his order doon did lay, That we shu'cl nae mair pelt the bell Wi' muckle stanes to ga'ar her knell. Aue o' oor nummer, Curry GrA.y, Did soon forget what Grim did say ; For Cur nae sooner had got oot Than the flingin' o' stanes he thocht aboot."

And so on, and so on, £or sc.-eral pages, description 0£ Curry's disobedience, 0£ his capture in -f{,agrante del·icto, and 0£his chastisement moi·emffim·wn. I had to write the sequel, showing what happened to Harpe, the irreverent, when the criminality 0£such authorship was brought home to him.

·wishing you all success, I remain,

Yours sincerely,

"\V1LLL\.:M: BISSET BEltRY.

WHY KOT .A CADET, CORPS?

h is exactly twenty years since I left the Grammar School (to proceed to "the Barn"), after three years in the Preparatory Department. It was then under the guidance 0£ ~Ir. Alexander Green, one 0£ the merriest pedagogues I ave encountered, who taught us to remember the innun1erable bays on the west coast 0£ Scotland by taking us h~ltnd them in an imaginary yacht, dancing to a jingle 0£ d18 ownmaking. I was rather shocked in finding the other ay that twenty years had fl.own since then. And yet I reme1;llberthe Grammar School long before that, for I had seenits sih·er towers eYery day 0£ my life eyer since I can 1%:~ber. In those days there ~as no ~a,r;a_zine: and no ow ~ry. Some 0£ us started a circulatmg library 0£ our :n, n. 1.n. the stable attached to the house 0£ the late Major oss in Albyn Place, now occupied by Dr. M'Kerron. The

Major's third son, Robert~whose eldest brother, Carnegie, was till recently our British Consul at Delagoa Bay, and married the daughter of his father's next-door neighbour, Miss 'ryiler-was the moving spirit in the moYement. But the library collapsed before we got the length of a manuscript catalogue, and thus one admirable form 0£ extra-mmal school life was nipped in the bud.

'rhe copies of the Magazine and the School Library Catalogne which have reached me demonstrate how much more man-like the Grammar School has become since those days; and the process will be rendered complete when the School equips itself with a Cadet Corps, attached to one of the Volunteer Forces- the Gordon Highlanders by preference. Wben I suggested anote on the subject to the Editor, I was alittle doubtful whether the proposal might not be too fanciful. '.1.'he fact that it had already been under discussion, and, as I learned from a letter, "is exciting much interest in the School," proved again how far the Grammar School has ad,anced as a £actor in the life 0£ Aberdeen since the late se,entics when I knew it.

In those clays Aberdeen had not caught the military fe,cr. The townsfolk took practically no interest whatever in the famous regiment which has its territorial headquarters on the Castlehill. Not until the "Cocknef" journalist resounded its praii;es for the magnificent ~ction at Dargai did it attract the attention of the people m the town ; but, that once clone, the Gordons can never be regarded in the old aloof way, thanks greatly to. the admirable work 0£ an Old Boy, Mr. Henry Alexander, Jun., of the Evening Gazette, whose" Muster Roll" has attracted much attention as a piece 0£ very clever journalistic enter· prise. ]for many years the position of the Yolunteer was ernn worse, for, hal:£ soldier, half citizen, he lacked thhe sccmity which the aloofness of the town gave to "t e military."

When the Volunteer movement was starte<lin the to"·ut it was made the object of much ridicule, and a mercha~ who became an officerwas lampooned by the present Presi·) dent of the Royal Scottish Academy (himself a YoluNtt~\1 in a pamphlet, which is now priceless, entitled "Ye O 1 1 ChePsemonger." One ofthe funniest pictures in it_shl~f~· a crowd deposing the Duke of Gordon from his h nt pedestal in Castle Street, and hoisting up the ~ere \ 0 (uniformed) in his stead. For years the enthusiasts ':re took a keen interest in the Volunteer moYement " regarded as good-natured an<l harmless amateurs, or,

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at worst, pretentious snobs. Of course, Aberdeen was not alone in this attitude. It was co=on over the whole country, and was shared not only by the lay public but by the ·war Office,who haYestan~ell the Yolunteersfrom first to last- ewn at the present moment, the force has no transport equipment - until one marn•ls that a single Volunteer has survi,ed.

Not only has he survived: he has forced the country to accept him, anclwehave to thank the Doers-however else we may reganl them-for bringing home to us, as few crises have clone, the absolute necessity of organising a serious system of national defence. Short of conscription, which is peculiarly repellent to our whole genius as a people, we must fall back on the Volunteer: ancl I am. firmly con,incecl that the clay is not far distant, when public opinion will compel e,ery able-bodied young man to join one or other of the " auxiliary" forces.

The University has already shown the way. It only remains for the Grammar School to organise a Cadet Corps on the same lines as have long obtained in the great English pul1lic schools. A Cadet Corps could render great service, as General Baden-Powell showed at ~Iafeking, where he uniformed all the boys, and got them to do all sorts of orderly work, allowing the men to stay in the trenches. Volunteering, as practised by a Cadet Corps, would serve the same physical purpose as athletics, and ~ould be of much more service to the community. There 1s nothing new-fangled about it, for the Grammar School boysin claysof old were skilled bowmen, while archery was one of the favourite games at both the Universities. The Grammar School boys ha,e e,en been known as a menace t the civic authorities, for, in 1612, the boys at the rammar, the Song School, and the Writing School~ lecl, of course, by young Gorclons- broke out in revolt and i~fi.e~the law as vigorously as ever Jack Harkaway and 18 kith and kin did.

V- A Cadet Corps, then, attached to the 4th Gordons ( olunteers), and dressed in kilts is ascheme worth aimin(J' at £ • ' "' , or it would pave the way for service in after years, arnl Would. be of immense interest to its members. I am not speaking without experience, for the two or three years I :pent as a humble gunner in the University Battery were ro.lllo~gthe pleasantest sides of academic life, and have stood a{ 111 good stead in the business of my·life. My brother, ""e:o_atynold Grammar School Doy, also served in the Uni81 Ambulance Corps, and my father was one of the

first Volunteers in Aberdeen. If a Cadet Corps were raised in the Grammar School, I might almost lie tempted to delete the last twenty years, and go back again to your silYer towers.

J. 11. B. London.

LEAVING CERTIFICATE EXAMINATIONS

, 1900.

TnIS year the School has gained 6 Honours, 57 Higher Grades, 5 Passes, and 152 Lower Grade Certificates. Honours were gained by:-

John Brebner, Mathematics, and Pass, Analytical Geometry.

Alfred F. Milne, English.

Alex. A. Moir, English, Latin (passed Anal. Geometry).

David D. Smith, English, Latin.

Classical VII.-14 Candidates passed for 53 Certificates, including 6 Honours and 33 Higher Grades. Av. per candidate, 3·64.

Classical VI.-18 Candidates passed for 62 Certificates, including 22 Higher Grades. Av.per candidate, 3·4.

Classical VA.-20 Candidates passed for 68 Lower Grade Certificates; four of the candidates obtained all five certificates. Av. per candidate, 3·4.

Classical VB.-12 Candidates obtained 11 Lower Grade Certificates.

Modern VI.-3 candidates obtained 6 Certificates, including 1 Higher Grade and 1 Pass; also 3 of the Scie1;1ce Certificates £or third year's Chemistry and Physics. Av. per candidate, 3. .

Modern V.-16 Candidates obtained 22 Lower Grade Certificates, and 5 of the Science Certificates. Av. per candidate, I·75.

In seven out of the ten subjects the percentages o! our passes were higher than those obtt1ined by the Higher Schools of Scotland, as follows :Mathematics - 15 per cent. above the average.

English - l!:J-3

Latin - 25·4

German - 10·7

Anal. Geometry - 12

Elem.Dynamics -32

Science - 2·4

The Greek and French percentages would haYe been squally satisfactory but for the failures in Classes VA.and VB. In the case of Greek it is to be remembered that this class was only in its second year of Greek, when failure is no disgrace: "'tis- better to have loved and lost . . " The more credit is due to the four who took the certificate

In VA. 4 ca.ndidates took all 5 certificates. 9 4

The percentage passes of this class in Latin was 100. This is a class which had its full share of the condemnations scattered by our inspectors so impartially in 1899. Their passes in Mathematics, English, and French, 15 of 17, 16of 17, and 16 of 19,indicated a uniformly high leYel of good work and preparation, and contributed in no small degree to the general success of the School.

The above results for classes do not include those who failed in Mathematics but passed in Arithmetic.

Cornparedwith last year's results, there has been a slight falling off in the actual number of Honours and Higher Grade Certificates, proportioned to the smaller numbers of Classes VII. and VI. this year. In other respects the general results show a distinct advance onthe high-water mark of last year's attainment.

Summ,cii·ised-O£ our 83 candidates :5 4 3 2 1 Certificates were taken In 1899,by 12 14 12 20 16 Candidates. In 1900,by 13 18 13 15 16 Candidates.

In addition to the above, 8 out of 64ScienceCertificates forall Scotland came to our School. All Schools of Scotland took l ·35 certificates per candidate.

A.~.S. took 2·75 certificates per candidate. ~1gher Schools, passes in English, Latin,Greek, Mathematics,French, German, and Science, -62 per cent.

A.G.S., - - - - -73·6per cent.

"GROUP"LEAVINGCERTIFICATES.

A single certificate, bearing the above title, is to be gwardedthis year, and in future, to candidates who pass Wh~\urs or Higher Grade in four or more subjects, one of an1? must be Mathematics, one English, A.nd one an cient or Modern Language. The Science Certificate

The Gramma1· School ~Magazine.

will count as one Higher. In certain cases two Lower Grades will beaccepted as equivalent to one Higher.

On the results of1899 and 1900the School claims these certificates for the following eleven :-John Brebner, Geo. Dawson, Robt. J. Gilchrist, Geo. M. Giles, Ian Maclaren, Alf. F. Milne, Alex. A. Moir, Norman Munro, David D. Smith, Wm. S. Mackie, Andrew R. Williamson.

All the above appear to have fulfilled the requirements, with a considerable margin to spare, in Honours, and a -fifthCertificate, Higher or Lower Grade.

ART CERTIFICATES.

(Freehand,LightandShade,ModelDrawing.)

ADVANCEDCOURSE.

Day Classes, Modern VI.

Of the Rbove,12 1st Class and 49 2nd Class Certificates were gained by our boys.

Examinations in Elementary Drawing were not held this year.

The above results show again a remarkable irnprovP.ment on those of the preceding year, to the extent of200 per cent. on 2nd Class Certificates.

The FmsT CLASS ADVANCED CERTIFICATESwere gained by:(Freehand) Robert M'DougnJl, Leon. J. Smith, Dougl. Watson, Anc.r.A.Willox, Wm. M'M.Anderson. CModel) Geo. J. Baxter, Wm. R. Deuchar, Robert M'Dougall, Doug!. Watson, Jas. S. Saunders, Wrn. M'M.Anderson. THE

SCHOOL SPORTS.

"MENS sana in corpore sano," we are told by 01_1e of Classical friends, is the acme of human perfect 10?· t in "mens sana "of the Grammar School has been eyiden d the Leaving Certificate and Bursary Examinations, ~e the "corpus sanum" was displayed beyond all doubt on

28th and 29th 0£ last month. Both days were, unfortunately, rather dull, but we could hardly expect summer weather at this time 0£ the year and should be thankful for the by no means small mercy that it did not rain. The events in which the School as a whole was most interested were the open 100 yards, mile, and obstacle races, and it was during these that the enthusiasm rose to its highest pitch. In the obstacle race, all the powers of the Games andSports Committee were required to keep back interested spectators of both sexes when the runners drew near the famous water-jump, which, for a wonder, was in proper working order, thanks to Mr. Ward. Indeed, they had been doing sentry-go up and down in front of the rope for some time. Once more the School 100 yards is 10¼secs. and the Old Boys' 11},eachof which isthesameaslast year. We must not forget to say a word about our young friend Benjamin-more familiarly known as "Pussy"Saunders. Benjie's athletic powers are already great, as he hasshown us, and we may expect that one of these days it will fall to his lot to keep up the athletic credit of the School among its fellows, which he will do right well. There are many others we could mention if space and time allowed. The neat dive of one of the Williamsons-I am ~ot sure which, I always confuse them-into the waterJump,was very fine. He will doubtless shine at the next Aquatic Sports.

The School Record for Scotland in the high jump was broken by T. B. Robertson with a jump of 5 ft. 3 in. The Band was in attendanc e,and was much appreciated, but, seeaking for ourselves, we µreferred the brasses to the pipes,through no fault of the players 0£ the latter, but because,as somesay, our·"eddication" is not yet complete ~sregards matters of that sort. Dr.Kelly acted as referee, ..vlr.Mackie and Mr. James Davidson as judges, Mr.Ward as time-keeper, and Mr. Joseph as starter. Among the spectators we saw many welcome faces which we do not see ~ooften now as we used once upon a time-notably Mr. ohnClarke,formerly our much-esteemed Latin master, and 0°w,a~ all know, Lecturer on Education at the 'Varsity. fur fr~ends have been more generous than ever with prizes, , 0.r which we should be very thank£ul. A list of prize~ 1nnersand prize-donors is subjoined:liig~ Jump (under 10) with spring-board-! B. Saunders, 4 lii heet 10 inches; 2 E. Ducat. gWJump (under 12)-1 E. P. Baniett, 3 feet 10 inches; 2 •Syme.

High Jump (under 14)-1 H. Snowie, 4 feet 2 inches; 2 J. M. Walker; 3 C. D. Peterkin .

High Jump (under 16)-1 W. W. Jameson, 4 feet 6 inches; 2 W. S. Trail.

High Jump (open)-1 T. B. Robertson , 5 feet 3 inches.

Hurdle Race (under 16)-lst heat-I A. S. Johnson; 2 D. B. Nicol; 2nd heat-I W. S. Tra.il; 2 A. Robson; final heat -1 A. S. Johnson, 22 4-5 seconds; 2 W. '\V. Jameson; 3 D. B. Nicol.

100 Yards Race (under 10)-lst heat-1 R. Lyon; 2 D. Riddell; 3 G. Johnstone; 2nd heat-I B. Saunders; 2 K. A. M. Tomory; 3 C. H. Simpson; final heat-1 B. Saunders; 2 R. Lyon; 3 G. Johnstone.

100 Yards Race (under 12)-lst heat-1 E. P. Barnett; 2 G. A. Ledingham; 3 J. M'Hattie ; 2nd heat-1 W. J. Mair; 2 W. Syme; 3 W. Thomson; final hea.t-1 E. P. Barnett, 16 3-5 seconds; 2 W. J. Mair; 3 G. A. Ledingham.

100 Yards Race (under 14)-lst hcat--1 P. A. Cooper; 2 J. R. W. Burnet; 3 R. F. 0. Sa,unders; 2nd heat-1 H. G. Wilson; 2 A. Watt; 3 J. M. Walker; finaJ heat--1 H. G. Wilson, 13 seconds; 2 J. R. W. Burnet; 3 P. A. Cooper.

100 Yards Race (under 16)-lst heat-1 D. B. Nicol; 2 W.W. Jameson; 3 A. S. Johnson; 2nd heat-1 D. H. W. Williamson; 2W. S. Trail; 3 M. J. Williamson; final heat -1 D. B. Nicol, 11 4-5 seconds; 2 W. W. Ja.meson; 3 A. S. Johnson.

100 Yards Race (open)-1 T. B. Robertson , 10 4-5 seconds; 2 W. Brodie.

Sack Race (under 12)-lst heat-1 I. Bisset; 2 A. Ledingham; 3 J. M'Hattie; 2nd heat-1 B. Saunders; 2 C. Reid; 3 M. Reid; final he,at-1 C. Reid, 22 2-5 seconds; 2 I. Bi~set; 3 J. M'Hattie.

Sack ~ace (under 14)-lst h~at-1 H. Johnston; 2 M. ~Pickford; 3 C. D. Peterkm; 2nd heat--1 W. A. B. • Ward; 2 J. Reid; 3 H. G. Wilson; fi.naJ heat--1 W. A. B. K. Ward, 23 4-5 seconds; 2 C. D. Peterkin; 3 JI. Johnston.

Sack Ra,ce (open)-lst heat-1 J. A. Davidson; 2 W. Brod~ 2nd heat--1 F. R. Johnson; 2 A. S. Johnson; 3rd hea R 1 T. B. Robertson; 2 L. J. Smith; final heat-~ F. • Johnson, 28 seconds; 2 L. J. Smith; 3 J. A. Davidson•. Quarter-Mile Race (under 16)-lst heat--1 W. W. James 011 '. 2 J. G. Danson; 2nd heat--1 D. B. Nicol; 2 A. Robso:, final hea.t-1 D. B. Nicol, 70 seconds; 2 W. W. Jameso • Quarter-Mile Race (open)-1 T. B. Robertson , 60 second_ 5 • 2 s. 300 Yards Race (under 12)-lst heat-1 E. P. Barn_ett, 9. ADuthie; 3 H. Flett; 2nd hea,t-1 W. J. MairB; "'ett, Ledingham; 3 J. M'Hatti e; final heat--1 E. P. arn 47 4-5 seconds; 2 W. J. Mair; 3 J. M'Hattie.

The School Sports. 107

300 Yards Race (under 10)-1 B. Saunders, 54 4-5 seconds; 2 K. A. M. Tomory.

300 Yards Race (under 14)-1 H. G. Wilson, 45 4-5 seconds; 2 J. R. W. Burnet; 3 D. Cruickshank.

Half-Mile Race (under 14)-lst heat-I J. R. W. Burnet; 2 W. A. Lothian.; 3 P. A. Cooper; 2nd heat-I H. G. Wilson; 2 A. Wa,tt; 3 J.M. Walker; final heat-I J. R. W. Bw-net and H. G. Wilson (equal), 2 minutes 56 3-5 seconds; 3 A. Watt.

Half-Mile Race (unde~·16)-1 D. B. Nicol, 2 minutes 52 3-5 seconds; 2 T. Lamb; 3 J. G. Danson.

Half-Mile Race (open)-1 T. B. Robertson, 2 minutes 31 4-5 seconds.

150 Yards Race (under 8)-1 R. La.wrence, 26 4-5 seconds; 2 R. M. Ledingham; 3 A. E. Law.

80 Yards Ra.ce(under 8)-1 R. La,wrence; 2 R. B. Thomson.

Broad Jump (open)-1 T. B. Robertson, 18 feet 3 inches.

Broad Jump (=der 16)-1 W. S. Trail, 14 feet 5½ inches; 2 A. S. Johnson.

Broad Jump (under 14)-1 H. G. Wilson, 13 feet 2 inches; 2 J. R. W. Burnet; 3 W. A. Lothian

Putting the Weight (open)-1 A. Macrae, 27 feet 8 inches; 2 T. B: Robertson.

Throwing the Hammer (open)-1 F. R. Johnson, 59 feet 5 inches; 2 J. C. Lyon; 3 T. B. Robertson.

Throwing the Cricket BaJl (open)-1 T. B. Robertson, 90 yards 2 feet; 2W. Brodie.

One.-MileRa,ce (open)-1 T. B. Robertson, 5 minutes 53 3-5 seconds.

Three.-LeggedRace (open)- 1 W. Brodie and T. B. Robertson, 14 2-5 seconds; .2 A. S. Johnson and F. R. Johnson.

Obstacle Race (wider 14)-1 J. Reid; 2 W. A. B. K. Ward; 3 H. G. Wilson.

Obstacle Race (over 14)-1 M. J. Williamson; 2 F. M. Greig; 3 R. Bruce.

Consolation Race--1 R. F. 0. Sa,under3. i,ug of War-Classical VII. v. School; former won. •P.'s 100 Yards--! F. H. Fraser.

W Prizes were presented by Dr. Duncan, Dr. Alex. alker (F.P.), Dr. Kelly (F.P.), A. Ledingham, Esq. ~lP.), Professor Cash, Admi~al Sir A.rthm Farquhar S .P.), Messrs. A. & J. Smith, lfrs. Crawford, Mrs. Baund~rs, Mrs. Simpson, the Rector, l\Ir. Allan, lir. ){rownie, Mr. C. Davidson, l[r. J. Davidson, lfr. Duthie, )J\i~dward, 1Ir. Lawrence, lrr. lrackie, )fr. lracleod, Mr. ){~ctleton,1I~.Mmison, )~r.Pope, lrr. Ri~chie, )Ir. ~ard, lJ:·•'\Vatt, Miss Adam, )1:issAnderson, Miss E. Davidson, an 1d\{ B.~- Davidson, lriss Du:frus,lriss Mackie, J. M., eEditors 0£ the Magazine.

Gn.-1.MMAR ScrrooL 'l:. ABERDEEXSHIRE.-The School commenced their season by playing a rather weak eleYen of the 'Shire. Although the 'Shire were not fully represented they came out victors by 42 rnns, 1Y. Smith (23), 1V. }i'Kintosh (37), and Fraser (11) being the chief contributors to their total. J. Brebner was the most successful bowler for the School, having 7 for 33, the following being the scores:ABERDEEKSHIRE. SCHOOL.

W.Smith, bBrebner . . .23 W.M'Kintosh,bRobertson .37

J.Brebner, cMortimer b W. Smith . . . . . . . 0 :.\fr.Reid,bW.Smith . , 2 Anderson,bRobertson . 3

H.Smith, runout . . . 0 K. Munro, c Christie b W. 7 Smith ..... · • Mr. Ward, bW.Smith . • 4 Fraser, bCla.rk .11

Dr. Christie, bBrebner 5 Mathias, bBrebner . . 7 W. Brodie, cEdwardslb)fac- 7 H. Jamieson, c Brodie b Brebner . . . . Hogarth, bBrebner . . J. Mortimer, notout . J.Edwards,bBrebner

Extras

A.Mortimer, notout • •·th o J.Stephen, caudbH.Srn1 11

Extras . . •

Total intosh • • • 1 J.M'Gregor,cAnderson bH. 7 2 Smith . . . . . • • 4 9 F.R.John~on, bW.Smith • 0 T.B.Rob~rtson, cEdwards b19 8 W.Sm1th . . . • ·w· R. Olark, cJamieson b • 0 106 Smith . . · • • 1

J.G.M'Gregor T.B.Robertson J.Brebner. R. Clark Runs. Wickets. 17 0 40 2 33 7 5 1

Total 62 Bowling Analysis---' Shire. Maidens, 1

Overs. 6 20 18.l 4 6 6 0

Grammar.

Wickets. o,•ers. )faitlens.

GRxmr.IB.ScrrooL i·. KrxTORE.- This match was played at Kintore in ideal cricketing weather. Kintore won the toss,and went in first. The School's bowling was so deadly that they were all dismissed for 38, A. ~fair being top scorer with 10. The School -wentin with high hopes of winning the match, but alas ! when the last wicket foll, the telegraph board only sho-wed33, which left Kintore victorious by 5 runs. The highest scorers for the School wereBrodie (8) and :ll'Gregor (8).

KIKTORE.

Ja.s.Cormack. lbw bBrebner 4

A. M'Donald, c Clark b Brebner . . . . . . 0

JohnCormack,bBrebner . . 0

A. Mair, bT. Robertson . . 10

R.Webster, bT.Robertson . 3

JJ. Christie, bT. Robertson . 2

•Thow,cScott bT.Robertson . . . . . . . . 5

A.Mackie, bBrebner . . . 1

JR.Laing,c JohnsoubBrebner 4

G•Cook,cJohnson bBrebner 2

•Mackie,notout 3 Extras . . 4

Total . 38

SCHOOL.

:VIr.Reid, b Cook . . J. Brebner, b i\I·Donald K. Munro, bCook . . )Ir. Ward,bCook . . W. Brodie, lb M'Donalcl J. l\i'Gregor,b Cook . F. Johnson. b){'Donald T.Robertson. bM'Donald W. Scott, b).{'Donalcl. R. Clark, bJ. Cormack D. l\Iortimer,not out E:s.i:ras . . . .

Total

Bowling Anal·ysis-Kintor e.

J. Brebner . . T.B.Robertson Runs. 14 16 Wickets. 6 4 )Iaidens. 3

1!.-1.sTEn.s '!:. lsr XL- Amidst great excitement this iatch took place at the School Grounds. :llany had been ifequestions whether the ~Iasters would play or not, and, lI they were to play, who would play for them. The ~ st?rs had the aid of Flett and Grant, and batted first, 4 ning up a total of 26, W. Flett ha,ing 10, Mr. Ward ~t:ld ~Ir. Mackie 2 (not out). The Ele,en passed this 61 w1thtwo wickets down, and finally won the match by runs and 5 wickets, the scores being as follo-ws:-

TEACHERS. SCHOOL.

Mr.Simpson, bBrodie . 1 W.Brodie, lbwbWard . . 1

Mr.Reid,bT.Robertson . 0 N. Munro, retired . . . .43

::\Ir.Spiers, bT.Robertson . 1 J. Brebner,hitwicket bReid 0

)fr. Ward,bRobertson 4 R. Clark, notout . . . . 4

Mr.Mackie, not out . 2 T. B. Robertson, notout . . 6

Mr.P. G.Allan, bRobertson O 1 1<~.R. Johnson, bSpiers . .19

Mr.J. Daviason,bW. Brodie 1 D. Smith, Mr.Macleod, bRobertson . 0 W. Scott, }

Mr.C.Davidson, b W. Brodie OI Saunders, tobat W.Flett, bT.Robertson . 10 A. Milne, W. Grant,bBrodie . 2 5 1 A. Johnson, Extra.s . .

(4wkts.) .77

Bou:li11g Analysis-Teachers. Runs. Wickets. Overs.

T.B.Robertson . 6 6 6 Maidens. 3 W. Brodie 15 4 6 Robertson bowledoneno-ball; Brodie,onewide. School.

GRAMM..\.R SCHOOL V. 'YARSITY,v..\:',DERERS.-This match came offat King's College Ground in fine but rather cold weather. The ,Vanderers took first lease 0£ the wickets, but could only muster 33runs, 0£ which iryers had 10and "1Cr. Extra" 14. At the call 0£ time the School had scored 75 for 5 wickets, ,J. Brebner ha,ing 46 (not out).

WA.!.'\DERERS. SCHOOL.

Fraser,bRobertson . 0 w. Brodie, C Fraser b 8 Fernando, bRobertson . 0 Fernando :46 Tarras, bBrebner . 2 J. Brebner, not out . • 0 Keith,bRobertson . 0 N. Munro lbwb Perera ;; Perera, bRobertson 1 J.G..VI'Gregor,candbPerera 6 Grant, run out 1 F. Johnson, run out . • • 5 Macconach.ie. bRobertson 1 A. Milne, not out 0 :Myers,bRobertson . 10 W. Scott, run out Saunders, b Scott 3 R. Clark, }tobat. :Munro, run out 0 T. B. Robertson, Leslie, not out 1 A. Mortimer, Extras 14 A. Johnson, ;; Extras

Total . 33 Total (5wkts.) 75

B ou:ling A.naly.1is-W cinderets. ).[aideD" 1 J.Brebner. T. B.Robertson W. Scott . Runs. 10 9 1 Wickets. 1

Grammar School. Runs. ".,fokets . Overs. ~aidens.

GR.UIMARScHOOL v. TURRIFF.-This match was played at the Hutcheon Park, Turriff, in beautiful cricketing weather. Turri:ff went in first, but began disastrously, 3 0£ their wickets falling for 17. Clark and Fyfo made a splendid stand for the fourth wicket, which realised 65 before Fyfe was bowled by ::'11'Gregor. The last few batsmen did not make a great stand, and when the last wicket fell the score was at 112. Before going in to bat, the Turri:ff men provided refreshments for the School Team, which were greatly appreciated. The School opened their innings rather badly, one wicket falling for 9. However, Brodie (23), )Ir. Reid (28), Brebner (50), 11'Gregor (21), and Scott (17) greatly improved the score, and when the last wicket £ell the score stood at 157, or 45 runs more than Turri:ff. The following are the scores in detail :-

TLRRIFF.

GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

A.W.Teunon, bRobertson . 0 D.Reid, Esq., runout . .28 G.M.Ritchie,bRo.b.ertson . 3 K.Munro, bFyfe . . . . 4 W J. Cla.rk,.cBrodie bBtebner 311W. Brodie,cDownie bGray21 w· Dowme,bRobertson 4 J.Brebner, cRossbGrant 50 H•M.Fyfe.bM'Gregor 43 J.::\i'Gregor,runout . . .21

• L. Bowyer, c and b F. Johnson,bGrant 2 M'Gregor . . . . 8 W.Scott, candbDownie 17 f GGrant,bBrebner 10 R.Clark,cRossbGray . 3

• uild,bBrebner . . 0 T.Robertson,bGray . . 0 'tJ-GC.Ross.notout . 11A.Mortimer, lbwbDownie 5 c· 0ray,bRobertson . . 3 A. Johnson,not out . . 0

• uthie, bRobertson . 0 Extras . . . . . 6 Extras . . . . . 9

13otdi ng A nalysis-Turriff. Buns. Wickets. Overs. )Iaidens. T.Robertson . 35 5 13.2 2 J. Brebner 39 3 15 3 J. M·Gregor 18 2 12 2 D.1Iortimer n 0 6 2 in ~llAi.nrARSCHOOLv. THISTLE 0.0. (STONEHAVE"N).- This Thec~h~as played in clull weather at the Cowie Grounds. rstle batted first, and ran up the respectable total

0£ 79. When the School's last wicket fell, their total stood at 50, or 29 behind their opponents.

THISTLE C.C. GRAM.."l\1ARSCHOOL.

G. Sorrie, bBrebner . 7

J. Martin, bRobertson . . 0

J. M. Mathieson, bBrebner 0

J. Pirie,cM'GregorbBrebner 1

G.Grant, bBrebner .29

C.Annandale,bBrebner . . 2

J.H.Gart,candbBrebner. 3

J.Watson, bScott. . 0 Priestly (prof.),notout 19

W. Nicol, bBrebner 6

J. CowiebBrebner . 3

J. Grant, bBrebner 0

Extras . 9 Total

J.M'Gregor, bPriestly 5

W.Brodie, bPriestly . 4

J.Brebner, bSorrie . 3

F.Johnson, bPriestly . 0

.A. Milne, runout 0

K.Munr_£icPriestly bSorrie 4

W. H. A. Ward, Esq., run out 9

A.Johnson, bSorrie . 0

W.Scott,lbwbSorrie. 10

D.}Iortimer, bJ.Grant . 6

T.B.Robertson, bSorrie. 1

W.Gauld, notout . 2 Extras . . 6 Total . 50

Boiding Analysis-Thistl e 0.0 Runs. Wickets.

GRAMMARScuooL v. ABOY:-.'E.-Thismatch took place atAboyne in rather showery weather. The School lost the toss and had to bat. J. :l['Gregor (21) -was the only one who seemed to be at home with the bowling, none o~ the other batsmen making any stand. 1Vben the last wicket fell the score stood at 44. Aboyne passed this with 5 wickets down, and when their last wicket fell the score stood at 88, Lord Huntly haYing :JO and ,Y. Hea,en 18.

GRAM:MAR. .A.BOYKE.

W.Brodie, lbwb W. Heaven 2

J. Brebner, cW. Heaven b Walker . . 1

K.:Munro,bWalker . . . 7

J.M'Gregor,bW.Heaven .21

F.Johnson, bW.Heaven 0

A. :Milne,b "\V. Heaven . 3

W.Scott,bW.Heaven . . 0

_<\._ Johnson, cW. Heaven b Walker . . . . 6

T.Robertson, bWalker . . 0

D. Watson, cE.HeavenbW. Heaven . . 3

J.Saunders, notout 0 EJ..rtra 1

Total .44

E. Heaven,bBrebner

A.}!earns, bBrebner - b \V. Heaven, c Brebner 18 }!·Gregor . . • • • •3o LordHuntly, bT.Robertson 5

A. Adam,cWatsonbScott• 2

\V.Laing, bBrebner • • •11

J..Alcock,candbRobertson 1

T.Waters, bBrebner 7

J.Uegrie, notout · • 3

A.Smith,bRobertson • o

W.·walker, bRobertson ,1

Extras . Total .88

Bowling Analysis-Gran ima r School. Runs. Wickets. Overs. 1Iaidens.

Aboyne.

ABERDEENSHIRE v. GRAMMAR ScuooL.-This return match wasplayed atMannofield inextremely cold weather. The 'Shire batted first, and ran up a total 0£ 99. To this the School replied with 75, or 24 less than the 'Shire. It was rather hard for the School that their last wicket £ell just aminute before time.

ABERDEENSHIRE.

J.F.Christie, bBrebner . . 6

W. Macintosh, bRcibertson .11

H. B. Lumsden, c Ward b Robertson . . . .11

G.R. Cowie,cMunrobMacgregor . . .10

J. Dunn, b Brebuer 15

H.¥athias,bBrebnei-. . .12

J. lhort1mer, cMunrobMacD gregor . . . . . O

•Jamieson,bRobertson .12 }I·J. Scott, candbBrebner 1 K•M'Combie,bRobertson 13 •Findlay, notout . . . 0 Extras . . 8

Total .99

GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

Mr.D.Reid.cJamiesonbScott 14 W. Brodie, bScott . .14

G. M. Morrison,bJamieson . 0

J. Brebner, bJamieson 4

Mr.W.H.K.Ward,bJamieson 0 N.Munro, bScott . . . 8

J. G. M'Gregor, bScott 0

F. R. Johnsen, bM'Combie . 11 A. Mortimer, cDunnbScott 9 R. Clark, notout 4 '!'. Robert.son, bJamieson 0 Extras . . . . 11

Analysis of B_owling-' Shire. Runs. "Tickets. :lfaidens. Overs. J.Brebner 30 4 1 14 T.B.Robertso~ 23

75

'l'uTfl; bowling analysis 0£ our opponents at Kintore, ther~ '.and Stonehaven, and in the second match ~gainst lll.utSbhirea_renot entered in the School Scoring Book, so 8 eomitted.

T. B. R.

TnE preliminary meeting for the election of office-bearers was held in Room I. on 1Yednesday, 5th September. :M~:Murison, Hon. President of the Society, occupied the chair and conducted the elections, the result of which will be found on page 118. A vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded the proceedings. 1900. Oct. 5. 12. 19. 2t:. Nov. 2. 9. 16. 23. 30. Dec. 7. 14. 21.

LECTURE-" On the Art of Reading Aloud." Rev. J. M. D,rnso~, D.D. .MAGAZINENIGHT.

DEBATE-" Are the Boxers in the right? " A{J:, G. S. RusSELL; 1Yeg., J. C. LYoS. LECTURE-" Paris."

· J. N. CARMICHAEL,Esq. . ,,·

DEBATE-" Should Competitive Examinations be abolished • AjJ:, J. G. DAssoN; .Neg., T. G. GRHHAT NIGHT.

LECTURE-·' Greece "-with Limelight ViewR. JAMESMorn, Esq., LL.D., Litt. D. l)IPR0MPTU.

DEBATE-" Is Professionalism degrading to Sport?" Alf., T. B. RonERTSO~; Neg., vV. BR0DIEl'ARLIAME~TARYNIGHT.

. . . Vie\\°'· LECTURE-" Sweden and it~ People "-with L1meltght J. BE1-TLEY PHILIP, Esq., M.A. HAT NIGHT.

Society. 1901.

Jan. 11. Lt;CTURE-" Witchcraft." ,v. MURISON,Esq., M.A

18. DEBATE-·"HaveAnimals Intelligence?"

A.ff.,A.LYON; .Neg., D.RoBB. ,, 25. MAGAZINE NIGHT.

Feb. 1. LECTURE-" AVisittoAmerica."

GEo.MmDLETo:-;c,Esq., M.A.,B.A. 8. DEBATE-'' AreRepublics Failures ?"

A.If, JAMESRAE; Neg., W. CRurcKSRA~K. ,, 15. LECTURE-"Experiments."

CHARLESM'LEoo, Esq.,M.A. " 2'2. HA1' NIGHT.

~1ar. 1. LECTURE-" TheShipsoftheVikings"-with Limelight Views.

H.F.

M.SIMPSON,Esq., M.A., F.S.A.

8. l;uPROMPTU. FIN.ALE.

CYCLING CLUB.

A MEETIKG was held in Room I. on :llonday, 7th )Iay, to consider the ad,isability of reconstituting the Cycling Club which was started last season. It was unanimously ag~·eedthat this Club should again be formed, and following this agreement came the election of the office-bearers :Captain, G. S. Russell; Vice-Ca71tain, W. Benzie; 8ec1·eta1·yand T1·easm·e1·,R. Bruce; Committee, J. Da,iclson, T. G.Gray, K. Hood, D. rl'odcl,and ,V. Trail. )I. H. )Iackie, Es~., our former honorary captain, was unanimously reelected. Uost Grammar School boys will rejoice to hear that the Club is now open to all without subscription.

d The fast run of the Cycling Club took place on SaturQay, 12th May. A large number of members met at ue~'s CroSJSat 1.30 p.m., and, with W. Benzie acting as cap_ta1n, we proceeding at " scorching " pace to• InYerurie, whic~ we reached about 4 p.m. }Ir. Mackie, honorary ca.li'ta1n, put in an appearance in time for an excellent tea, w 1ch was proYicled at the Kinton~ Arms Hotel for 'the dodest sum of 6d. per head. The Club arrived in Abereenabout 9 p.m., after a most enjoyable nm. hadA. for~ight later the Club held its second nm, which B ./0r its destination Newburgh . Having met at the hn ge of Don at 2 p.m., twelve members, who seemed to avefor their mo,tto "Festina lente," arTived at Kewburgh

The Grammar School Magazine.

about 3.30 p.m. An enjoyable game of cricket followed, and, after the necessary tea, the dozen returned home, being joined en route by )Ir. ::\.Iackie.

The Club had its third run on Saturday, 16th June, to Stonehaven. The weather and roa,ds were all that could be desired, and the Club reached Stoneha,en early in the aftn'Iloon. \Ve watched the cricket match between thP Thistle (8tonehawn) and the first Grammar with much interest. We are sorry to say that the Thistle proved too gooclfor the Grammar. A drunken sword swallower did his best fo amuse the company by swallowing dirty bars 0£ steel. At a quarter to sewn the Club quitted Stoneha,en, anclreached home about 8.15.

All aboYe13 are cordially im·ited to join the Club.

LIBRARY.

STAFF.- Da,id Anderson, after o,er a year of go~d work, has resigned. This is much to beregretted, but it1s to be hoped that some otlier or others 0£ the activities of the School will gain what the Library has lost.

T. G. Clark has also left us and the School. It is to be hoped that this deplorable circumstance will not greatly affect that gentleman's study of Henty. Seriously, ho.re,·er, Clark could and did work, and the Lib. is the poorer by his absence also. .

John ::\.I. Robertson has joined the staff, and is doing wry well indeed.

Th~ thanks of the School are due to Theodore Wa~t, who has, we £ear, spent the greater part of his holidays1j11 the Librarv. At anyr·ate, all the books are most carefu Y J lease cla.qsedand numbered, rules are made (to, be kept: P note), and the Library is in first-class working order.

CAT.U.OGl:;E.-Buy it, and enter the new books.

MEMBEllSIIIP.-The Library year has now well co)llmenced, and those who intend to join should do so at o~c; NEw BooKs.-The Literary and Debating Som_e;, (1899-1900) have made a handsome presentation, inctd~!,;; "Quo Vadis?" (Sienkiewicz) [482], "Life of Lord Ro f34] (Jerrold) [133], "Life of Sir R.H. Buller" (Jerrold) [ 1 ,; "The Slave of the Lamp" (Merriman) [481], "Savro a

Library. 117

(Winston S. Churchill) [478],"From Cape Town to Ladysmith" (Steevens) [54]," Wynport College" (Harrison) [479], "The Transvaal from Within" (Fitzpatrick) [53), "At Aboukir and Acre" (Henty) [480], "The Castle Inn" (Stanley J. Weyman) [483].

GEXERAL. - It is tobe hoped that more usewill bemade ofthe Library this year than last. The Reference Library isnow in order.

G. STAXLEY RuSSELL, Hon. Lib1·arian.

SCHOOL )'[USEUM.

AN interesting addition has been made to our specimens of old newspapers by lfr. G. l\I. Thomson, of the School Board, who has presented a facsimile of the first number of the Abe1'Cleen J ou-rnal, dated "Tuesday, December 29, 1747, to Tuesday, January 5, 1748," and containing interesting details, chiefly naval, of the war with Franc:e and Spain, then drawing to a close.

The School Board has also added some --rnluable specimens ofstuffed birds, &c.,to be used in object lessons. T~ere is ample space for e:s:tensions in this and other directions. .A.reno relics of the war forthcoming ? It is longsince either the Library or Museum enjoyed a "pious benefactor."

SCHOOL OFFICIALS FOR THE SESSION 1900-1901.

GAMES COMMITTEE.

President,· Hon. Secretary,

D

The Rector. Mr. Ward.

Mr. James Davidson. •Anderson. K. M'Ivor. W.Brodie. A.Mortimer. ~-S. Clark. T. B.Robertson. J° R. Johnson. G.S. Russell. •G.Macgregor. Th. Watt.

Magazine.

Captain,Secretary,FOOTBALL. - T. B.Robertson. F. R. Johnson.

LITERARY AND DEBATING SOCIETY".

President, - G.Stanley Russell

Vice-PresidentsJames C.Lyon, Theodore Watt, John M. Robertson. Secretary, - J. Gordon Danson. Treasurer, -William Brodie.

'Theodore Gray. .John Lillie.

Committee\ A.Lyon. James Rae. James Souttar.

LIBRARY .

·G.StanJ.eyRussell. j John M. Robertson. Theodore Watt.

MAGAZINE.

G.Stanley Russell, Editor-in-Chief. David Anderson, Literary. Thomas B. Robertson, Sport. Theodore Watt, Business Manager.

The Hon. Secretary of the Former Pupils' Club is :Jr. Alfred ·'iv. Edwards, 2G7 Union Street.

OUR CO~TE~IPORA.RIES .

WE beg to asknowledge with thanks the receipt of the f~llowing }Iagazines: -"The Edinburgh _Ac~~e1;1Y Chromcle" (3), "The Glasgow Academy Chromcle (t, "'The Ola,-ian," "Spier's School }Iagazine" (3), "T e "\VallaceHall Academy :Magazine."

'The Editor Is always pleased to consider any Articles sub• D soYS, mltted to him, SCHOOL NOTES, NOTES ABOUT OL •t CLASS NOTES, &c., are especially welcome, but they ":'ell be of general Interest. All contributions should be wrl on ONE SIDE OF THE PAPER ONLY,