VOL. XLVII.] DECEMBER, 19x9. [No. 349. UK THE MANCHESTER GRAMMAR 5CHGDL MAGAZINE) OFFICIAL ORGAN OFTHE OLD MANCUNIANS ASSOCIATION PRINCIPAL CONTENTS: f Occasional Notes. O.M.A. Notes and O.M. Chronicle. Dr. Mumford's Book on the Grammar School. Le Mot Juste. Sports, Societies, etc. A 1 PUBLISHED BYJ GAIT <&CO.,LTD. JOHN DALTON JTMAMCHEJT£R ^PRINTED BY H RAWON &CO, 16 NEW BEOWM ST MAMCliliiTER Annual Subscription to the O.M.A. (inclusive of this Magazine), 5/- The Ulula Magazine—Advertisements. Tailoring for School, for the Holidays, For the Officers' Training Corps, For Evening Dress. TTTE have always in stock a choice range of materials, specially suit- able for Gentlemen's Younger Sons. The designs and colorings are in all cases quiet and tasteful, the wearing qualities are of the best, and our charges are as low as is compatible with thoroughly sound workmanship. BOYDELL BROS., Civil, Military, and Clerical Tailors, 83 to 89, Market St., Manchester. 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The Ulula Magazine.—Advertisements. Cewis $ llMntpre, «-rfTJ CiPf " Tel. 1243 Cent. Tel" 1243 Cent. Civilian and Military Shirtmaker? and Hosiers. Sole Agents for Old Mancunians Association Colours. Ties, Blazers, Detailed Prices on application. Military Badge Brooches, 9ct. Gold, from 15/6. Solid Silver, beautifully Enamelled, 4/-, Post 2d. Bronzed Metal, 2/-. ANY REGIMENTAL BADGE SUPPLIED. 62, Deansaate, Manchester, CHARLES POLLITT U LULA. No. 349. DECEMBER. 1919. Occasional Notes. Term ends Thursday, December 18th. O.M. Dinner, Friday, December 19th. Conversazione (1st night), Friday, Dec. 19th. Conversazione (2nd night), O.M.'s, Saturday, Dec. 20th. Term begins Tuesday, 13th January. The performances of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," given by the Dramatic Society, are as follows :— 1. Monday, Dec. 15th 2-30 p.m. 2 7 >> >» 3. Tuesday, Dec. 16th 7 4. Thursday, Dec. 18th ... 2-15 ,, (Boys only, 6d.) 5. Thursday, Dec. 18th A Concert by the Musical Societies will precede the play in the evenings. Admission will be by programme only. These may be obtained from Form Monitors or at the Receiver's Office, price Is. Our heartiest congratulations to Dr. Bruton on the new honour, Litt.D., Manchester University, which has been con- ferred upon him. Although the promoters did not realise the £200 which they set as their aim, the Mancunia Concert Party was an undoubted success. Their entertainment was very refreshing, and we are eagerly looking forward to their re-appearance next year. Apparently the School is once more beginning to awake. The Debating Society has been revived, the Music Study Circle is a centre of attraction for young and old, the Chess Club is crowded out, and the Junior Debates fill the School with what some people might call their noisy prattle. 134 O.M.A. NOTES AND O.M. CHRONICLE. Is the School haunted? Whose ghost is it that prowls around these noble buildings at dead of night, " bending " glass windows and cracking locker doors? Is the School to suffer for his misdeeds? Will not some doughty knight rid us of his presence? Our prefects will have to go in for a course of voice training. Their weak utterance at Morning Prayers evidently does not impress the lessons on the minds of the younger generation. It is with the deepest sorrow that we record the death of Mr. Pollitt. The School seems to lack a great deal now he is no longer with us. New boys generally looked upon him with awe, thinking that he helped Hugh Oldham to found this venerable pile of buildings. May his successor stay with us as long. We were startled to hear on December 3rd of the sudden death of Dr. Berlin. Our best wishes to that faithful few who are venturing to snatch some shreds from Fortune's favours up at Oxford once more. We have received the following Magazines during the month:—The Pauline, the Tonbridgian, the Serpent, the Harrovian, the Barrovian, the Portcullis, and the Taunton School's Journal. Contributions, other than those relating to the O.M.A., will be received by Mr. A. S. Warman at the School. O.M.A. Notes and O.M. Chronicle. We are asked to announce that in future the price of the O.M. Badge will be 4s. 6d. The J. R. Broadhurst Memorial Fund is still open. Sub- scriptions may be sent to the Treasurer, Mr. A. S. Warman, at the School. O.M.A. NOTES AND O.M. CHRONICLE. Our congratulations to Professor F. W. Gamble, Professor •of Zoology at Birmingham, who has been elected a Member of the Council of the Royal Society. • We offer our heartiest congratulations to Mr. J. S. Blake Reed, O.B.E. (late Lieutenant R.N.V.R.) on his appointment to be a Judge in the Egyptian Courts. He left for Egypt on October 26th. During the war he served for two years at Kirkwall on H.M.S. " Cyclops," and was later employed at the Admiralty. It will be remembered that his decoration with the O.B.E. was announced in our last number. Lieut.-Col. G. Mackereth, M.C., has been appointed Vice- Consul at Beyrout. Captain W. E. Nuttall, R.A.F., has been awarded the M.B.E. for work in the Royal Aircraft Factory. Major N. H. P. Whitley, M.C., the Manchester barrister, who enlisted as a private in the 7 th Battalion Manchester Regiment at the outbreak of war, has been promoted Lieutenant- Colonel on the Staff of Field Marshal Allenby in Syria. Lieut.- Col. Whitley, who is an international Lacrosse Captain, has been abroad in the Sudan, Gallopoli, Sinai, and Syria since September, 1914. He has been awarded the Military Cross, French Croix de Guerre (with palm), and the Order of the Crown of Italy (Knight). He has recently been on special duty into the Taurus Mountains, and into Kurdistan. Lieutenant A. Ii. Jackson, of the East Lancashire Regiment, has been appointed Education Officer at Kinsale to the 1st Essex Regiment. We hear that Mr. G. S. Atkinson, who during his time in the Army, was mentioned in dispatches, has passed his B.Sc. at the Manchester College of Technology. Mr. L. Marks has passed the Solicitors' Final Examination with First Class Honours, and has been awarded the Law Society's Prize. We regret to note the death of Mr. F .A. Price, Superinten- dent of the City Gas Department. 136 O.M.A. NOTES AND O.M. CHRONICLE. We note the following- appointments :— Mr. F. W. Halliday to a Lectureship in German, Man- chester University. Mr. Arnold Gibson to be Modern Language Master at the R.N. College, Dartmouth. Mr. C. S. Hemingway to be Senior Mathematics Master at the Blackpool Secondary School. Mr. J. Shuttleworth (19th in the First Division Clerkships of the Home Civil Service) to the Board of Trade. Mr. A. D. Walsh, M.A., to Staff of Bolton Grammar School. Mr. S. O. Andrews, M.A., Headmaster of Whitgift Grammar School, to be a member of a Committee to consider the position of Classics in English education. Mr. A. E. Sandys-Wiinsch to be Superintendent of Parks and Allotments, Norwich. Mr. D. Sawers Scott has passed the Supervisors' Examina- tion of the Eastern Telegraph Company. We note that Pitman's have just published a booklet, by- Mr. Max Kay, on " Commercial Invoicing," with a Foreword by the High Master. The following books have just been published :— " Responsibility," by J. E. Agate. " Time and Eternity," by Gilbert Cannan. " Christian Inscriptions," by Rev. H. P. V. Nunn— published by S.P.C.K. Texts for Students, No. 11. We have hitherto omitted to announce that Major V. S. T. Fincken, M.C., an O.M., was awarded the O.B.E. last June or thereabouts. He is now demobilised, and is going into business in London. Mr. C. P. Taylor is going out to join his brother at Penang, to help in founding a new firm, " F. G. Taylor & Co." A picture of Sir Gordon Hewart appeared in Punch of November 5th. N.B.—Will members please note that subscriptions should be paid to Mr. FRED ETCHELLS, Assistant Secretary, at the School, and that changes of address should be notified (also to Mr. ETCHELLS) without delay. OBITUARY. 137 Obituary. PERCIVAL WOODCOCK. Were I another Milton I would write a second Lycidasr " Dead 'ere his prime;" such another one was Percival Wood- cock, late Natural Science Scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Full of the fire and glowing ambition of youth, he burned to make his mark in the world. He longed to a greater degree than most to do great things for his fellowmen. He was caught up away from amongst us before he could accomplish more than a part of his heart's desire.