PRICE ONE SHILLING. iif ~ -~~• .______ _ ..... ~·ts No. LXll. A MAGAZINE EDITED BY MEMBERS OF THE SYDNEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL. APRIL, 1886. C ONTENTS. PAGE Editorial ... Prize List-Christmas, 1885 ... 2 Quarterly Examination Prizes 3 List of First Classes, 1885 3 Public Examinations ... 4 The Unfrersity Examinations 6 Cricket ... 7 The School v. Church of England 1-lchool 7 The School '" Undergraduates ... 7 The School v . i:lt. Ignatius 8 The School v. King's School 9 The School v. Oallan Park 10 The Melbourne l'tlatch ... 11 SYDNEY: PUBLISHED AT THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 1886. l ......... ~-..~ 13 8 1 ·------··6 ~ ... ~ EDITORIAL. A FRESII School Year turns our thoughts naturally both to the past and to the future, to what we have done or failed to do and to what we can do and mean to do ; and the thoughtful recollection of the past is indispensable to the successtul carrying out of our resolutions for the future. Bacon says a faculty of wi&e interrogation is half a knowledge, and most assuredly our own failures and successes are facts the right questioning of which will always prove invaluable. \Ve cannot do better than remind those who bring to this year's work the recollection of success of the saying of one of our great Englishmen, that "success is like the meal which the traveller enjoys upon his way, but the purpose of which is to strengthen him for his future journey." Too much stress cannot be laid on the fact that all School work is only a means to an encl, and not an encl in itself: a boy leaves School the richer not by what he bas clone while there, but by the powers of clc>ing and thinking he takes away with him. Most boys, after they leave School, will never need to open a School book again as far as the facts contained in them are concerned : it is not what a boy can understand of the contents of a book that will serve him in the future, but just so much as he has made part of himself, the abiding recollection of facts rightly grouped, and the habits of method and experiment which have resulted from his work. In saying this we do not mean for a moment to underrate what has been done in the late Examinations by the boys who have so well sustained the fame of the Grammar School. \Ve would only warn them not to think so much of past victories as of future achievements, and at the same time say a Word of encouragement to those who have been disappointed. Examinations are confessedly an imperfect test of ahility and acquirements ; we cannot pretend by a score of papers to form anything like that complete estimate of a boy which a score of years may still leave doubtful : yet a test we must ha\'e, and all that can be clone is to make that test as fair as possible. Many familiar faces will be missed this quarter ; we need hardly say they take every good wish with them from those who are left : if, with good wishes We may couple a word of advi~e, it would be this-" See that your polished arms be primed with care." Your favourite gun or bat or racquet has its place where clamp and rust will not spoil, why then let what you have gained at School slip from you for want of use. Not that we should expect to see You spending the Saturday half-holiday over a Latin Grammar or an Algebra; ~tis rather the habits of work than the subject matter that will be valuable 111 the hours that must be devoted to bread-winning. For years you have had to be punctual in rising; each day's work has been portioned out and has had \ 2 to be done to the day ; in every department of work or amusement you have had to act as one of a body, and have hacl to respect the rights of others. Why should these invaluable habits of punctuality, regular method, and corporate action be allowed to fall into disuse ? Rather let them be treasured as the harvest garnered in the years of School life. And in that time, alas! too short, which a man has to himself; in 'which most of us have to crowd a.ll our attempts to clevelope our intellectual powers, to satisfy our artistic impulses, or to attend to duties outside our daily work, duties as members of families, as citizens, as men ; it is all important that the lessons of a good education should not be forgotten. A knowledge of the lessons that all history teaches helps to make a man a wise citizen, tolerant of the opinions of others, and able to distinguish true from false prosperity, while an accurate knowledge of his own tongue added to the reasoning powers so thoroughly developed by mathematics will keep him proof against any specious juggling with words and enable him to unmask self-interest in the thousand and one disguises which it assumes in a young country. While wishing success to all old boys, we should be very ungrateful if we did not recognise the School's indebtedness to them for all that they have done in keeping up the tone of the School, in maintaining discipline and forwarding the interests of all kinds of sport. The new boys, we trust, have found by this time that they have come among boys who are proud of their School, and who will expect them to take an active interest in all that concerns it, whether Examination list or Cricket score. Finally, let old and new together resolve that, what is worth doing at all is worth doing well, whether it be in class, on committees, or in the cricket and football field. Work has to be done and may as well be done pleasantly. Let them get a few clean sheets on Saturday and see if it is not so. PRIZE LIST.-CHRISTMAS, 1885. Knox Prizes :-1. Thompson i. 2. McClelland i. Windeyer E11say.-Shakespeare a Product as well as a Producer. 'fhompsou i. Knox Latin Prose Prize. Thompson i. Cape Verse Prize. Thompson i. GENERAL PRIZES. Given to all boys who gain three First Classes during the year. Thompson i. Ford i. Taylor i, Waldron ii. Hunt i. McNeil ii. Kethel Godfrey Lloyd i. Stephen ii. McClelland i. Sharpe McNeill i. Anderson i. Lewington. FORM PRIZES. VI. Thompson i. l\loderns 4. Small Weigall ii. V. Stephen ii. III A. Sharpe B. Cox IV. Watt ii. Newman i. Pain i. Remove. McPherson iii. B. Addison i. I A. Sorrie Moderns 1. Poole Waldron B. Ruutz ,, 2. Taylor ii. II A. Jones ii. C. MacKnight ii. ,, 3. Logan i. 3 MATHEMATICAL PRIZES. Thompson i. Kinross i. Sapsford Godfrey Lloyd i. Brereton i. Menzies i. W eigall iii. Stephen ii. Parker i Neich ii Flatau i. Mcintyre Ross Browne ii. O'Keefe Molinei Walker Black GERMAN (given by L0rd Augustus Loftus) Corlette 2 QUARTERLY EXAMINATION PRIZES. Al'RIL AND SEPTEMBER, 1885, Upper School-Latin Grammar: Thompson i. Greek Grammar : Stephen ii. English Grammar : Thompson i. French Grammar : Deane i. Arithmetic : McNeil i. Lower School-Arithmetic : Menzies i. English Grammar : Waldron ii. French Grammar : Colyer i. Latin Grammar : McClelland i. DRAWING-Poole BooKKEEPING-McKenny LIST OF FIRST CLASSES, 1885. A.-ENGLISH. UPPER SCHOOL. LOWER SCHOOL. ¥unt i. Stephen ii. Windeyer i. Bereton ii. Leth bJPidge ii. Lewington { hompson i Stephen i. Wall Newman i. Read ii Browne ii. LFloyd. i. Bowman Corlette i. Kethel Massie Hulle ord 1. Mack Huntley i. Addison i. W aldrou ii. Godfrey McNeil i. Dobbin i. Taylor i. Lethbridge i McClelland i. Addison ii. ll'laut Anderson i. Lawson i. Thompson v Weigall ii, Runtz McNeil ii. McLaurin i. Eld Robison iii. Leeder B.-MODERN LANGUAGES, UPPER SCHOOL. LOWE~ SCHOOL. TLhompson i. Bohrsmanu i. Hester Kethel loyd i. Bowman Hunt ii. Manning iii. Hunt i. Kinross Tillett Sharpe McN ~il i. W eigall i Taylor i. Kennet Ford 1. Watt ii. Solomon McLaurin i. Stephen i. Wall Huntleyi. M cOlelland i. Stephen ii. Goldsmid Hunt iii. Massie McNeill ii, Rutter Garnsey Lewington Anderson i. Elwin i. Begbie Kindon Windeyer i. Lyon i. Moses i. C.-CLASSICS. UPPER SCHOOL. LOWER SCHOOL. Thompson i. Newman i. Menzies ii Hunt i. Sharpe Cox Lloyd i. Bohrsmann ii. Pain i. Stephen ii. Aron i. Helm Stevens Read ii. Read iii. Anderson ii. Ford ii. Rutter ii. 4 C.-CLASSICS.-LOWER SCHOOL (continued). Addison i. Manning iv. Cheeke Tress i. Waldron ii, Milford Godfrey Vivian McClelland i, Jones ii. Sorrie Runtz Thompson v. Mansfield ii. Brentnall Anderson iii. Weigall ii. Pickburn ·ii. D. -MATHEMATICS. UPPER SCHOOL. LOWER SCHOOL. Thompson i. Stokes i. Arithmetic. Lloyd i. O'Conor Ass er RP a ding Stephen ii. Todhunter Lethbridge ii. Tress i. McNeil i. Brereton i. Sapsford Godfred McNeil ii. Moline ii. Menzies i. Weigall iii. Watt ii. Logan i. McClelland i. Flatau i. Anderson i. Ebsworth Waldon ii. Flatau ii. Osborne i. Ke thel Lewington Perry Mcintyre Parker i. Browne ii. Taylor i. Cruickshank i. Hunt iv. Euclid & Algebra. Fuller Campbell i. Neich ii. Sapsford Olson Lyons Skarratt Lethbridge i. Vernon Walker Thomas ii. Sharpe Moline i. Ross Pope Menzies i. Crisp i. Torpy O'Keefe Gleeson i. Airey i. Harris iii. Taylor ii. Blackwood Moore i. Kinross i. Peters Black E.--:-NATURAL SCIENCE. Crisp i. Lyons Robinson i. Kiss Ebsworth McNeil i. Alledring Smith Fordi. Moline i. Corlette ii. Henry . Poole Gleeson i. PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS.