.,' 332 THE EAGLE WRIGHT 0.) and (E. M.). Old English grammar. 3rd edn. 1925 : repr. 1934. YEATS (W. B.). Collected poems. 1933: repr. 1935. PHILOSOPHY THE·EAGLE *HULME (T. E.). Speculations. Essays on humanism and the philosophy of art. Ed. by H. READ. 1936. rA eMagazine THEOLOGY AND CHURCH HISTORY SUPPOR TED BY MEMBERS OF Biblia Hebraica. Ed. by R. KITTEL and others. Hefte 14-16. 1937· Bradshaw Society. Vol. LXXIV. Pontificale Lanaletense. Ed. by G. H. Sf DOBLE. 1937· John's College CABROL (F.) and others. Dictionnaire d'arcMologie chrlftienne et de liturgie. Fasc. 146-9 (paques-patron). 1937-8. Canterbury and York Society. Diocesis Cantuariensis. Registrum Henrici Chicheli. Pt I. 1937· KENYON (Sir F. G.). The Chester Beatty papyri. Fasc. VII, Ezekiel, Daniel, Ester (text). 1937· LAKE (K.) and (S.), edd. Studies and documents. Vol. VIII. 1937· Oseney Abbey, Cartulary of. Ed. by the Rev. H. E. SALTER. Vol. VI. (Oxford Hist. Society, Cl.) 1936. SMITH (Rev. B. T. D.), D.D. The parables of the Synoptic Gospels. 1937· Somerset Record Society. Vol. LII. Registers of Bishops Stillingtol1 and Fox, 1466-94. 1937· Texte und Un tersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristl. Literatur. Bd. LI, 1. 1937· Theologisches Wor,terbuch zum Neuen Testament. Herausg. von G. KITTEL. Bd. Ill, 14-17. 1937-8. VOOSEN CE.). Papaute et pouvoir civil l'epoque de Gregoil'e VII. cl 1927. VOLUME L, No. 219 and INDEX OF OBITUARIES, VOLS. I-XLIX PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE : PRINTED BY W. LEWIS, M.A., AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY MCMXXXVII CONTENTS PAGE The Fiftieth Volume . I Editors of The Eagle Magazine 4 T. E. Hulme and the Religious Attitude 10 Translations from J ose-M�ia de Heredia: The Subscription for the " current year is fixed at 4$. Life The Coral Reef 18 Subscription £5. Five years' Subscription £1. The Shell 18 Subscribers are requested The Mountaineers 19 to leave their addresses with Mr E. A. 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Johniana • 36 N.B.-Contributors of anonymous Correspondence. 40 articles or letters will please send their names to College Chronicle: of the Editors, who need not communicate one The Adams Society 41 them further. 42 The Classical Society The Editors will welcome The Historical Society 43 assistance in making the Chronicle as complete a record as The Law Society . 43 possible of the careers of members The Medical Society of the College. The Musical Society 4446 The N ashe Society . 48 The Natural Science Club 48 The Theological Society 49 The Chess Club . 50 The Athletic Club . 50 The Badminton Club SI L.M.B.C. SI Association Football 53 Hockey . 54 The Rifle Club 54 Squash Rackets 55 Swimming 55 Lawn Tennis . 56 College Notes 57 Obituary : Grafton Elliot Smith 64 H. R. Tottenham 70 The Library 90 College Awards . 99 Index of Obituary Notices 105 Illustrations: p. 38 First Entry of Insurance of College Buildings facing • ,64 Grafton Elliot Smi�h " " THE EAGLE lV CONTENTS Obituary: �������������������������� PAGE ����� Edward James Rapson . 224- VOL. L July 1937 No. 219 Courtenay Gale 23 1 ���������������������� The Library . 24-1 ��������� College Awards 248 The Painting of the Front Gate 24-9 The New College Buildings 253 A Theatre Appointment . 256 A Letter from the Foundress 260 An Addition to the College Library . 262 Vanished Peace 269 THE FIFTIETH VOLUME The Commemoration Sermon . 270 By THE MASTER The Johnian Society 273 " O long do you think it will last, Mr Editor?" Such Johniana. 275 W was the question with which his critics sought to Book Reviews . 279 confound the first Editor of The Eagle. The year College Chronicle 280 wasH 1858. Dr Bateson had just become Master of the College. College Notes . 298 New Statutes were in contemplation. The enlargement of the Obituary: Hall, the new Chapel, the new Lodge were in the near future. Cyril Bradley Rootham 304- Undergraduates "cannot write " and "ought not to write", Mrs Heitland 308 went on the objectors. Triposes will suffer; sport will suffer. The Library . 324- "If in truth no man in St John's College has anything he Illustrations: wants to say, this is surely very lamentable," replied the First Entry of Insurance of College Buildings facing p. 38 Editor. He thought of grave contributions to learning and Grafton Elliot Smith " p. 64- politics and the young Eagle did not eschew the most serious J. M. Wordie " p. 163 themes. Anglo-Saxon poetry, Classical studies, four Shake­ Offthe Coast of Ellesmere Land " p. 163 spearian subjects and two articles on Paley's Moral Philosophy Screen at Whissendine appear in the first volume. But as Dr Johnson's fellow­ " p. 196 collegian, Mr Edwards, found, cheerfulness would break in Organ-cases at Bilton and Brownsover " p. 198 on philosophy, and before long lighter topics shared the Edward James Rapson " p. 224- Editor's favours. The authentic note was soon struck. The The Front Gate " P·24-9 Editors had sought" something to fasten College spirit upon", The New College Buildings " p. 253 A Letter from the Foundress p. 262 and before they reached their hundredth page, they realised " that they wanted not a magazine, but a Johnian magazine, Cyril Bradley Rootham p. 304- " something to make us "realise more vividly than we have hitherto done that we are members of a Society " . They set out to make the magazine a part of the life of the College. EL St. Joh. Coll. LiL!. (-I'ltn:" 2 THE EAGLE THE FIFTIETH VOLUME 3 In 1860 "Our Chronicle " begins. This was started for the arrangements. "The ancient bird has now moulted and benefitof Old J ohnians, "to furnish tidings of what was going reappears in new and gorgeous plumage." But not till 1885 on in the place where they themselves had spent so many did it shed the purple plumage of its original cover. Almost happy hours ". And they were called upon to respond. "Why from the beginning contributions to the history of the College should not our offshoots in India, or Australia, or Natal, figure in the pages of The Eagle, and in 1890 began the follow the example of 'Our Emigrant', whose description of " Notes from the College Records ", perhaps the most New Zealand has been such a valuable addition to our pages ? " valuable series of historical articles of its kind. "Our Emigrant", it may be observed, was Samuel Butler. But we need follow the fortunes of The Eagle no further. The Chronicle was rapidly expanded to include all the The stroke of genius that discovered in the College itself a activities and interests of the College. Johniani nihil alienum continuing inspiration gave The Eagle its vitality and, on the was the motto. The progress of the Chapel tower, the levelling other hand, gave the College an institution which enlarged of the cricket field, the activities of all the Clubs found their its life with a new activity. It came speedily to be a record of place with the Scholarships and Tripos lists, academic that life, of those who were sharing and had shared it, the appointments, and notes on books published by members of autobiography of a society. As such it has lived and flourished the College. How many forgotten names leap to life in these and as such may it always continue to flourish. To the zeal pages. And more mundane matters were not forgotten. which first taught The Eagle to fly and the labour which has "The reform of our dinner in Hall has at length been sustained it all these years, this preface to the fiftieth volume effected," write the Editors triumphantly. "This question pays a humble tribute. which assumed an almost revolutionary aspect in some Colleges has with us been brought to a settlement ...by a milder course of constitutional action." On a topic of such grave and perennial interest we may be pardoned fo r noticing the settlement which gave the Editors so much satisfaction. A dinner consisting of entrees, meat, vegetables, sauces and puddings was to be served at 9d. per head, with no sizings IS. except for beer, joints not to be pushed about the tables, and all at the same table to leave Hall together'. A committee was to be set up to receive complaints and suggestions and to be a medium of communication between the undergraduates and the cook. In 1867 the Editors set aside their old rule, by which the technicalities of science were excluded from the pages of The Eagle, to give an account of Professor Adams's recent discoveries in Astronomy. But this was a rare exception in the Table of Contents, which had by this time assumed the character it was to keep. By the tenth year the subscription list was flourishing and the Editors launched fo rth into con­ siderable improvements in the typographical and publishing I·2 THE EAGLE 4 - EDITORS OF THE EAGLE MAGAZINE 5 Brett, A. E. March 1880-April 1882. EDITORS OF THE EAGLE MAGAZINE Brooke, H. November 1873-June 1874.