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Walker). 29 Oxford Circus .• 3 N .B.-Contributors of anonymous articles or letters will please send Writing Down .. , 294 their names to one of the Editors who need not communicate them 2 further. Johnian Society 95 298 L.M.B.C. It is desired to make the Chronicle as complete a record as possible � of the careers of members of the College. The Editors will welcome 00 Henley Regatta 3 assistance in this effort. 301 St. John's College Cricket Tour (;,. The following may be obtained at the Colleg-e Buttery on application S. J. C. Swimming Club 304 to Mr. LOCKHART : 'I .: General Athletic Club 305 1. The College Boating Song, by Dr. G. M, Garrett, words by '" Mr. T. H. Glover; 6d. 0 Musical Society 3 5 2, Large paper copies of the plate of the College Arms: price rod. 0 The Adams Society 3 7 3. Fine impression, folio, of the old copper-plate portrait of the 308 Gadflies, 1924 .• Lady Margaret: price IS. 6tl. 312 Obituary 4. Copy of the antique medallion portrait of tbe Lady Margaret; price 311. 318 College Notes .. 326 Johniana THE EAGLE Johniana " NOTES ON ROULETTES AND GLIssETTEs. -This sounds ,'ather frisky for the title of a book by a ' Lecturer and Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge,' and we should feel easier acU £ OD agl£ as to the future of St. John's College, if we could receive an assurance from the College Authorities that they have VOL. XLIII. No. 192. July, 1924. examined the work in question, and can vouch for its being of the highest respectability. "-Punch, 2nd April, 1870. " During the high wind of Wednesday afternoon, between four and five o'clock, two stacks of chimnies on the north side of the middle court of St. John'S College fell in with a Commemoration Sermon loud crash; one stack broke through the roof on the floor of th� Rev. R. Duffield's keeping room, with such force as Preached in the College Chapel on May 4th, 1924, by the Rev. to beat through into a bed-chamber in the Master's Lodge. A. W. GREENUP, Principal of St. john's Hall, Highbury. The other fell into a room where a student providentially escaped unhurt. At the same time four of the fine elm Mal. iii. 16: "A book o/remembrance was written." Rom. i. 14: "I am debtor." trees in the walks of the College were torn up by the roots." Cambridge Chronicle, 5th March, 1824. I. HE service we are engaged in brings to mind an aphorism of Ruskin, and bids us learn the lesson therein taught T " The idea of self-denial for the sake of posterity, of prac tising present economy for the sake of debtors yet unborn, of planting forests that our descendants may live under �heir shade, or of raising cities for future nations to inhabit, never, I suppose, efficiently takes place among publicly recognised motives of exertion. Yet these are not the less our duties; nor is our part fitly sustained upon the earth, unless the range of our intended and deliberate usefulness include, not only the companions but the successors of our pilgrimage." 1 Each one may spiritualise the quotation for himself :- Prove title to your heirship vast By record of a well filled past : A heritage, it seems to me, Well worth a life to hold in fee.2 To-day we kindle our torches at the lamp of memory. The book of remembrance has been opened to us by the reading of the names of our benefactors, who, by their gifts of buildings, fellowships and scholarships, have contributed to the welfare, material, intellectual and spiritual, of the College. That they left their money to the College is a small thing in com parison with the example they have left us to the ideals of the foundation, ideals expressed in the founders' will " that 1 Ruskin: The Seven Lamps 0/ Architecture. Aphorism 29· • Geo. Herbert : The Heritage. 280 28I THE EAG LE THE EAGLE places be established where the laws of God be more specially institution, since it suggests the relation between scholar learned, taught and preached, and scholars to the same intent and teacher. St. John was the scholar who loved to recline be brought up in virtue and cunning, for the increase of on the breast of the greatest of all teachers, thirsting for that Christ's faith." How these ideals have been carried out true knowledge which He alone could impart ; distinguished for more than four hundred years may be gleaned from th in the early Church by the name of E7nCTTYJ(JWS; E'KAEKTWV pages of the College Histories, which reveal a story for which E'KAEKTOTEPOS, as one of the Fathers calls him; a warm our humble gratitude goes forth to Him who doeth all things hearted, friendly man, of a receptive turn of mind. well, who has guided and still guides by his Providence Our painters have represented him with countenance of the affairs of our Society. " The Lord hath been mindful effeminate character, but in manliness, courage and zeal of us, and He will bless us. he was behind none of the Apostles, as the New Testament sur " Happy is a College like ours which has the affection of its members as they realise that narratives plainly show, and some of these traits have here in other men have laboured and that they have entered into vived in the legends depicted in the window erected their labours ; an affection which will be strengthened memory of our late master, Dr. Charles Taylor. " At the trial materially by the recent establishment of a Johnian Society, sides and below we see the Apostle as he faces his fiery. where. building together more firmly past and present members in a.nd prepares to drink his noisome cup, but the scene bonds of gratitude which can never be broken. he reclaims the fallen is central ; central, too, and supreme, We praise famous men to-day, men renowned for services is' that where, seated on high, he proclaims to the last the to Church and State, divines, statesmen, warriors, musicians, message which he has heard from the beginning.4 St. John lawyers, physicians, poets, the enumeration of whose names may not have been trained in the schools of Rabbinic dia would be impossible in a single sermon, men whose training lectics5; but he had, as his writings show, a profound insight here had been attested by the results attained in the battle into the meaning of Old Testament scriptures; he had the of life. No great evangelist, so far as I know, has sprung true spirit of the scholar who by patient meditation makes from the College to stir the soul of England as Wycliffe, the learning of to-day the starting point of that for to-morrow ; Wesley and Whitfield did; but without the work of the and he had, too, the true spirit of the teacher, for, as Dean scholar the work of the evangelist could never be done. It Stanley said: "The floodof speculations from She east, which was the work of Butler and others that made the work of in the central city of Ephesus blended with the advancing Wesley possible ; and it has been the work of our divines tide of Platonising philosophy from the west, he met not here that has made the aggressive work of evangelisation merely by opposing them, but by acknowledging and repro in our towns and villages possible for those who, leaving these' ducing in the light of Christian faith whatever there was of sheltered courts, have gone forth into the larger world' to tmth 1:n them. G grapple with those problems, deeper and more serious than mere intellectual exercises, which meet the ordinary man and Ill. woman in their daily contact with life ; and who in their walk of life have found that It was a religious foundation which our founders sought among the un taught poor to build up, and though our statutes have been altered from Great deeds and feelings find a home, time to time this has not been lost sight of, provision being That cast in shadow all the golden lore made in the latest for chaplains to conduct daily services after the order of the Church of England. Our first Chapel Of classic Greece and Rome.3 Robert Shorton, an able was built under the first master, Dr. administrator, and from the eighth year of Henry VIII down II. to 1869 appears to have been in continuous use. Our his torians are not in agreement as to whether it was an enlarge It was a happy thought of the Lady Mm'gm'et that when ment of the old Hospital Chapel or an entirely new building.