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Wilts, to Eva Catherine, youngest daughter of the late William Evetts, Esq., of Tackley Park, Oxfordshire.

Oct. 2nd, at St. Stephen's Church, Hammersmith, Charles William Empson, of 3, Cleveland Gardens, Hyde Park, only surviving son of the late Rev. W. H. Empson, Vicar of Wellow, Romsey, to Catherine Leslie Gillies, only child of the late Lieut. W. A. B. Gillies, R.A.

Oct. 2nd, at All Saints', Babbacome, Lewis Pendarvis Kekewich, third son of Trehawke Kekewich, Esq., of Peamore, to Lilian Emily, eldest daughter of Sampson Hanbury, Esq., of Bishopstowe, Torquay.

DEATHS.

Sept. 27th, whilst bathing, near Freshwater, Isle of Wight, David Ormerod Archer, only son of David Archer, Esq., of Fairford.

ARMY.

The Sherwood Foresters-Lieut. Francis C. Godley, to be Captain.

The Rifle Brigade-Lieut. Arthur Edward W. Colville, to be Captain.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. William C. Gibbs, Rector of Haghley, near Stourbridge, Worcester.

Rev. F. S. Hewson, Vicar of Combroke, Compton Verney, Warwickshire.

Occasional Notes.

On Friday last a half holiday was given in honour of the birth of the Bursar's son, who was born on Sept. 17th. We must apologise for omitting to record the happy event in our last number.

THE Master preached by invitation at the Harvest Festival of the Marlborough Mission at Tottenham, which was held on Sunday, Oct. 5th. The Board School Room, which is used for the present for the Sunday Services, was tastefully decorated with offerings of flowers and fruit, which were after the evening service divided among the district visitors to distribute to the poor. Crowded services were held in the Board School Room in the morning and evening, and in the afternoon between two and three hundred children collected to hear an address from the Master. In the Mission Room in Reform Row, which is one of the poorest parts of the district, Rev. E. S. Marshall, the assistant curate, held a Harvest Thanksgiving Service. Rev. E. F. Noel Smith, Curate-in-charge, was, we regret to say, prevented by illness from attending any of the services. In the first ties of House Matches, Baker's have defeated Cotton House, Horner's Preshute, and Way's Ford's, and Littlefield have scored 5 tries against Gould's. This latter match has to be decided by another day's play. Hart Smith's have drawn the bye.

THE dates of the matches with the Nomads and Keble College are now definitely fixed. School v. Keble College, Nov. 22nd, School v. Nomads, Nov. 29th.

'SIXTH V. School' ended in a victory for the Sixth by 4 goals and 1 try to 1 goal.

WE hear that Rev. J. G. Wood's promised lecture this term will be on 'The Horse,' a subject likely to prove very attractive under Mr. Wood's masterly

treatment.

We are glad to see that Rugby takes its defeat so easily. The Meteor proves quite to its own satisfaction that they were beaten solely by the elements, and that their team was infinitely superior to ours in both batting and bowling.

WE are glad to hear that the Marlburian Club, which started on July 29th of this year, opened with 189 members, consisting of the Dean of Westminster, Archdeacon Farrar, the Master and the Rev. G. W. DeLisle and 185 O.M's.; of whom 52 entered the school between 1843 and 1853, 67 entered within the next 10 years, 56 entered between 1863 and 1873, and 10 after 1873.

The Committee appointed for the current year

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nian, Geelong Grammar School Quarterly, Forest School Magazine, Rossallian, School Magazine (Uppingham).

Correspondence.

To the Editor of the Marlburian.

DEAR SIR,-I venture through your valuable columns to make an appeal to the School on behalf of the Debating Society. It now numbers in all only a dozen members, and at our last debate there were only present 14 in all, of whom 5 were members.

The Society is one of our most valuable School Institutions. It has developed many able speakers in past days and there is no reason why it should not do so now. Fellows are apt to exaggerate the severity of the ordeal of speaking at debate; and if any are kept back from joining the Society by timidity and nervousness, I am sure all old members of the Society will agree with me that there is nothing to fear. We do not wish maiden speeches to be extempore. Fellows should make up their minds to speak beforehand and get up the subject, writing an introduction and end to their speeches, so that they can always begin and leave off decorously; then they should rise immediately after the opening speeches and make their remarks before they are taken out of their mouth. Applause is never stinted in our Society.

The advantages to be derived are inestimable. It is undoubtedly a great accomplishment to be able to think on yourlegs, and give your thoughts expression. To the voice it gives clearness and distinctness of articulation and the Bradleian is not a bad room for sound.

My appeal is directed to the whole School, and I should be very glad to hear members of the Fifth Form speak. But they are more likely to feel shyness and timidity. It is the obvious duty of the Sixth Form to fill the gap. They have the most developed ability of the School and the greatest opportunities of reading not only literature but political reviews. Surely they ought to give the School part of the benefits they possess.

If our debates are not interesting to the School, it is to be regretted. We cannot undertake to discuss questions like ghosts on every occasion; and it has generally been found that political debates have succeeded best.

However this may be, it seems a farce to carry on the Society as it is, and I hope that the school will come to their senses and agree with me that it is a debt due to our predecessors and to the School to maintain the Society, and putting away selfish apathy and excuses about want of time, to make time and not to forget what a wrong they will have done future Marlburians by handing down to them either an effete Society or none at all.

Believe me, Sir, yours faithfully,

H. M. LEWIS.

To the Editor of the Marlburian. DEAR SIR,-Allow me through the medium of your valuable columns to suggest that "Chapel bell" be suspended somewhere, where it could send forth its well-remembered

tones, and rouse the weary slumberer in time to get into morning school. As it is, complaints are heard on all sides that dormitories, which in the olden days could hear the bell well enough, have to set watchers on the window-sills to listen for the sound of the bell at the Porter's Lodge. Yours truly,

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To the Editor of the Marlburian. DEAR SIR, Once again it is necessary for us poor sufferers to call attention to the overcrowding of the Adderley library. Last time no one appeared to breast Mr. Upcott's indignation; but I hope we shall have a champion now. Why do fellows rush for places and get as near the door as possible? Because they want to be able at least to sit down when they get inside. It is very hard for this to be relegated to our class-rooms by the prefect. The obvious solution is hence. forth to exclude the removes. They are small and noisy and tax our nerves throughout prep., in their attempts to derive words of wisdom from some popular book like Potter's Euripides, which most are to be seen transcribing in their notebooks. This is all very well, but except for the sake of warmth, the presence of the removes seems to be unnecessary, Hoping you will find room for this plea,

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To the Editor of the Marlburian. DEAR SIR,-I confess with shame that while my thoughts have been straying on occasions in our present chapel, I have noticed that the winners of the Mathematical Prize have not been posted for five years. Surely it would be better to com plete the record at once? AEIOU.

To the Editor of the Marlburian. DEAR SIR, I am one of those people who always have a grievance. On the present occasion I have many. I always hitherto have had recourse to your columns for relief. I hope you will not fail me now.

I am not a sage, not even a 'Fussy;' yet I think I see traces of demoralization in the ranks of the school, and I hope by your means they will disappear. In the first place I am much struck by the general air of unpunctuality that pervades the school at their games. Did Daulias exhort you to punctu ality at cricket in vain? I fear he did, when I see the school so tardy in beginning their football. If digestion is still going forward at 2.45, then put down games to begin at 3.0. But if from time immemorial Marlborough has completed this process at 2.30, and games are fixed to begin then, let them not dawdle on till 3.0. The other day a Lower Game was hanging about. When interrogated 'They had no ball, could not find Potter.' Potter and the ball were only 30 yards off in their direct line of observation. It is not all the fault of out-boarders: they are needlessly late; but even inCollege players are to be seen sloping up casually at a quarterof-an-hour after the proper time. Quousque tandem? May this be the last time when such an appeal is rendered necessary!

Charge No 2. is more extensive and if possible more serious. Where is the life and energy that of old sustained

our school institutions? When the debating society can barely!! muster ten fellows willing to speak, out of some 75, who are more than capable; when the Art Society lectures are attended on an average by a mere decimal part of the school, and the N.H.S. though numerically strong can boast of but few active members, and in some of its sections there is evident languor, then I think it time to call on Marlborough to wake up, and instead of bestowing all interest and enthusiasm on the result of cricket or football house games, to be animated by a spirit of patriotism, and think not merely for the particular state, but for the wider and larger interests of the whole community.

Yours in pain,

DUSALIA.

To the Editor of the Marlburian. DEAR SIR,-I write to propose a change which I am afraid is altogether opposed to the prejudices of the school; the change, which I mean, is the substitution of the Association game for Rugby union throughout the school. Now that forwards in the latter game as here played in housematches are not allowed to pick up the ball, what earthly advantage can Rugby have over Association?

There is no doubt that Association is a game which requires more head and skill than its rival. It is more interesting to spectators, more exercise to players, and that too in a more rational manner.

Senseless squashes, aimless butting, seething and perspiring masses acting more from brute instinct, than with human intelligence, reckless collaring, the odious and dangerous practise of halfbacks of sitting on the ball, what pleasures have these as compared with the skilful and bracing activity requiring presence of mind, science and decision?

There can be little doubt that the numerous accidents, which have occurred this term, would have been minimized, if the stupid prejudices of hardheaded Marlburians could be reconciled to the dictates of common sense.

Believe me, yours, etc.,

A WELL WISHER.

To the Editor of the Marlburian. SIR, It was with feelings of the deepest and most intense regret that I read in your last number the decision to which the Football Committee had come about the football stockings.

What right, I ask, have such a Committee, whose tenure of office is but for one year, to make such radical changes in the time-honoured garb of the School Football XV, on their own authority, without consulting the feelings of O.M.'s? Grant that these colours are not beautiful, but what in football is beautiful?

We shall next hear, I presume, that this same Committee has abolished the jersey. This radical spirit, which is now so prevalent, is quite out of place in the question of football dress. Hoping that I shall have many who agree with me n thinking that these æsthetic hallucinations are in every way to be dispelled,

I am, yours, &c.,

CONSERVATIVE.

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On Saturday, Sept. 27th, at 2.45, Ord opened the annual encounter by kicking off for the School on a wet and slippery ground, which made running very difficult throughout the first day. From the very first Martin was conspicuous for his admirable dribbling and it was mainly due to his activity that the ball was taken out of the Sixth 25 and brought on to the School line. Martin obtained what seemed to us to be a bona fide try, though the ball did get out from under him. As it was propelled and did not roll we think the try might have been allowed. However the Sixth maintained their advantage to the full, and Bull, exhibiting much better form than he had hitherto, made a good run right behind. Buchanan successfully achieved the place kick.

It was decided to change at every quarter; and the latter part of the first half-hour was very uneventful. The Sixth had perhaps the better of it, led by Hulbert and Robertson, and especially Martin. For the School Hume and Merry were prominent, and Olivier did one very smart thing. A good deal of passing came about between Lias and Bull, but the difficulty of the ground frustrated their efforts. With the second change luck turned. The Sixth were penned from the kick off owing to a bad return by Annesley, which Hume and Cooper turned to good account. Lias, however, rescued the V1th from immediate danger, and, the Rubicon once crossed by Robertson, the School were put in imminent danger by Buchanan and Bull. Then the scale turned and by a fortuitous circumstance, Merry got hold of the ball and Bull being unable to overtake him, it was left to Annesley, to avert the disaster, which he temporarily did by a neat collar. Dundas put the finishing stroke to Merry's excellent beginning, and Olivier kicked a first rate goal considering the state of the ground.

So far the score stood at goal all, and the School being a heavier lot were deemed to have still the advantage. But the Sixth were evidently far from exhausted. Of the fourth quarter we do not retain any detailed impression. Martin and Robertson seemed to us to throw all the other forwards except Hume into the shade; and the first of these was well repaid for his skilful efforts by an admirable dribble all across the ground, which gave the Sixth another goal from Buchanan's foot. And when last of all Bull sailed straight for the goal post, we thought the Sixth would have trebled their adversaries' score. The try was disallowed by a technicality, which we do not pretend to fathom. either dispute we believe logically the Sixth could claim the try, but rules are always illogical.

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The game was not resumed till Thursday, Oct. 9th. The sixth form victory was not long delayed, as Bull and Lias scored the requisite tries before half time on recommencing. The Sixth had lost Lewis, whose place Risley filled. The school were assisted by Mr. Bambridge on this occasion. No other member of Common Room figured in the game on either side; a change which gave the raw material better opportunities of showing its true metal, but weakened both sides. Mr. Bambridge deserves the most hearty thanks of the school for his kindness and energy in playing himself and showing us how to play the dribbling game à la mode. If criticism may approach such a great authority, perhaps he overdid it and put his own side somewhat out in a few instances. Bull's try was obtained by a pass from Chambers and a run halfway across the ground in capital style. Lias backed up well and by a feat of sharpness crowned a succession of fine performances on either day, which would bring honour on any half-back.

What happened after 4 goals were obtained by the Sixth matters not. Now for a little general and personal criticism. In the first place forwards, though vastly improving in this respect, play much too close a game. We look to the development of a loose and individual game, which is now universally adopted and is more suited to games played XV a side. Martin preeminently is an exception to our criticism; what his dash did for his side can only be properly valued by those who saw him play. Hume is next to him and with these no one can claim comparison. Of course when there are squashes, there should be the old fashioned forwards, and chief of

these in our estimation are Woolner and Robertson.

We cannot praise the school behinds altogether. Merry played very well on the former day, but was not so striking on the second. Davis has a rare pace, but needs more practice in collaring to be safe. Against their forwards the above remarks we made before are especially directed. Our correspondent made very few notes of good individual play among them, yet they were quite capable of it. The Sixth behinds were in practice in every way superior except pace. Bull seems likely to do as well as his predecessors Keeling and Fox, and with one exception made no bad mistake, but on the contrary by personal prowess and timely encouragement kept his side well together. Lias, Lewis and Buchanan are all good at Back. Lias is the best dribbler, Lewis the safest collar, Buchanan the most awkward to tackle. The other Sixth form behinds did not do worse than the school, though they were on paper weaker.

In conclusion there is no reason why the present XV should not be a good one. Worse luck than the last Captain we trust Bull will not have, even if he could.

HOUSE MATCH. BAKER'S V. THOMPSON'S.

Thompson's kicked off, and for a short time kept the advantage which they thus gained; then they were slowly forced back, until a run by Olivier, who afterwards passed to Cooper, brought the ball close to the Cotton House goal. Here ensued some smart forward play on both sides, when Olivier again got the ball, and secured a try about half-way down. This was not kicked, the wind being strong and adverse. In spite of the efforts of Thompson's, they were unable to advance far, and it was not very long before Martin made a run and passed to Ferguson-Davie close to goal line, who secured the second try for Baker's. This was successfully placed. On play being resumed, Ord, by a smart bit of dribbling, succeeded in gaining some ground, but they could not keep it, and the third try was gained by G. P. Chappel, following up a run by Olivier, who was collared just on the goal line. This was very low down, and the place was a failure. A quarter-of-an-hour had now passed, and sides were changed the wind blowing diagonally across the ground. Cotton House now made a good dash

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and for some time kept the game in Baker's quarters. But again Baker's kept forcing them back, notwithstanding the resolute efforts of Ord and the other forwards, and some smart collaring by Merry and the other behinds. Nothing, however, had happened when change was called. next quarter-of-an-hour was much like the first. Cooper ran in and secured the fourth try for Baker's high up. It was a long kick at goal, but the wind was all with it; the ball hit the post and fell over on the right side. This made the second goal. After kick-off Cooper made a fine run along the top of the ground, but was collared before he reached the goal line; the forwards, however, kept the ball here until Waterfield got it, and ran in right behind. This try was converted into a goal. Very shortly after came the last change. Baker's still had the game all their own way, though once Merry, by a good run, gained half the length of the ground for Cotton House. The sixth try was obtained by Hume by a very fine piece of dribbling. The place, however, was again missed owing to the wind. Then followed some very hard play close to the Cotton House goal, but owing to the keen vigilance of the behinds, Baker's could not get in. Once an unsuccessful attempt was made to drop a goal, and once the ball was dribbled in, but touched down by Thompson's. Thus when no game was called, Baker's wanted one more try to win.

The game was continued on Oct. 11th. Baker's had lost the services of Hume, Olivier and Waterfield, the places of the two former being supplied by Wynne-Willson and Houseman. Thompson's played with great spirit, and in the first quarter de Montmorency looked dangerous once, but was well stopped by Houseman, and Ord, by a dashing piece of play, obtained a try for them, but it was too high up to be successfully placed. This put Baker's on their mettle, and it was not long after change (at the quarter-hour) that Wynne-Willson took the ball by a good dribble to within ten yards of Thompson's goal line, and Houseman, who was backing up well, by a very smart run got a try right behind. This place was successfully tried, thus completing four goals and three tries against one try.

Besides those already mentioned, for Baker's, Kitcat, behind, and Everett, pro H. J. Cooper on the first day, H. J. Cooper on the second day, H. R. Chappel, Davies and Ross, forward, played best,

while for the losers Boulton and Burness, behind, and Keeling and Jowett, forward, did their best to avert defeat.

HORNER'S (CROSS ARROWS) v. PRESHUTE.

This match began on Tuesday, Oct. 7th, and was finished on Saturday, Oct. 11th. Neither side was able to put its whole XV into the field; Horner's had enlisted the services of Little to fill Griffith's place and Preshute had Martin as 4-back in place of their captain Lewis, and Clayton, in the squash in place of Smith. Those who have seen anything of how substitutes always play, will hardly need to be told that they could not have done more even for their own houses. The change that Little's unlucky accident made showed how much he was doing for Horner's during the first half-hour.

The day was bright but sufficiently windy to justify a change of ends every quarter-of an-hour, and the ground very hard and dry. As soon as the first squash was formed it was plain that the weight was on the side of Preshute, but Horner's forwards played up so pluckily that there was no great loss of ground at first. The persistence with which the ball was passed back to Davis showed clearly in whom Horner's placed their main hopes, and they were not disappointed. Once in the first

quarter and once again in the second he got in behind the Preshute goal-posts in spite of the efforts of the backs, and each time Buchanan's unerring foot converted the try into a goal.

Such a start looked highly promising for Horner's, and their more enthusiastic supporters began to hope for a victory within the hour. But during the last 35 minutes the game wore a very different aspect, and except for short intervals, the ball hardly left their end of the ground, and they were compelled to touch down repeatedly in self-defence.

Just before the half-hour, Little, who had done a lot of service in running and collaring, in trying to stop the rush of the Preshute forwards was hurt so much that he had to retire altogether, and Casson was withdrawn from the squash to fill his place. The strength of the two sides in the squash was now so unequal that Horner's forwards were carried back time after time by their opponents headed by Clayton and Towgood, while their previous policy of passing back to Davis and Buchanan was of worse than no avail. No sooner did the ball reach

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