Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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8 L. Vorley, now at Harvard University, has won a place in the Freshmen ' s soccer team, is a member of the Harvard Glee Club and kept wicket for the Harvard University Dramatic Club in a cricket match against the cast of ' Victoria Regina ' . Mr. Profit, a former member of the S. G. S, Staff, organised the match and also took part in it. Graham Gibbons is now Head Prefect of Ridley College and captain of the football team. He will be going to Pennsylvania Uni- versity in the autumn. E. J. Moniz has been playing football for the B. A. A. first XI. Ewing Tucker, at Sherborne School, is to take the School Certifi- cate this July. We wish him luck. We hear that he gives promisie of being a very good rugger player. Lyall Mayor, at Cheltenham College, has passed a gym. test usually taken by boys of eighteen. He has also played football for his House in Cup matches. Glyn Gilbert, at Eastbourne College, has been awarded his ' Stag — firsit XV rugger colours — and has played in every match this sea- son. He is the youngest player ever to have attained this distinction. Letters have been received also from the following: — W. C. H. Hallett, H. Masters, H. W. Murphie, H. North and Tony Anderson. They are all doing well in work and games and, one and all, they con- tinue to display a lively interest nn the affairs of Saltus. THEY SAY THAT ' — the Headmaster and the Staff certainly deserve a long holiday this summer. THAT — much of (their spare time has been taken up in teaching three boys who have been studying for the Cambridge Higher Certificate. THAT — the Board of Education should take note that the Saltus. has nine forms and exactly nine teachers, including the Headmaster! THAT — on the cheerful side we can, in this school year, take pride in our accomplishments, both scholastic and athletic. THAT — a hundred per cent pass in examinations and outstand- ing performances in athletics do not often go hand in hand. THAT — we did even better in the Inter-School Sports this year than in 1937.

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7 OLD BOYS ' NEWS. We publis ' hed below the news of Old Boys of the S. G. S. which we have been able to collect during the year. The Editor takes this opportunity of asking those who have been to school at Saltus to let him know of their activities, or those of their friends, unhampered by any undue consideration of modesty. Especially it is difficult to obtain accurate news ' of those who are abroad, and any assistance rendered in that way will be warmly appreciated. The following academic distinctions have been gained during the year. We offer our congratulations, albeit rather belated, to all concerned. R. L. Browne, who has been at Edinburgh University with a Bermuda Scholarship, obtained his M.A. degree last autumn. A. D. Spurling has been admitted to the Bar. He has the dis- tinction of being the Colony ' s youngest barrister. W. H. C. Masters, a former Bermuda Scholar, has recently be- come a Doctor of Medicine and has returned to Bermuda to practice. D. J. Williams ' , has obtained his B.A. degree at Oxford Univer- sity, and is now in Denmark taking a course in Physical Education under Svend Holtz. H. J. L. Marriott, a Bermuda Rhodes Scholar, has obtained a second class in Honour Mods, at Oxford. S. M. Paschal, whose award of the Rhodes Scholarship for this vear is mentioned elsewhere in this issue, is proceeding to Exeter College, Oxford in October. He was also one of Rossall ' s representa- tives at the Public Scliools ' Sports at the White City in London in the spring. W. R. Kempe, winner of last year ' s Bermuda Scholarship, now at Rossall School, obtained extra credits ' in the School Certificate ex- amination lasit December in Latin and Mathematics. Michael Beavis passed the School Certificate examination with honours in July 1937. He then proceeded to Munich University, where, after a preliminary course in German, he has now settled down to the main business of studying Electrical Engineering. Peter Smith is now at Exeter School in England. He passed the School Certificate examination last December with six credits. In other ways, too, the Old Boys seem to be playing an active part, wherever they are.

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9 THAT — N. Williams, who trained our representatives, is In no small way responsible for this success. THAT — reading the lesson in the Hall has proved to be a unique initiating ceremony for our newly appointed prefects. THAT — the Editor is to be congratulated on producing this fir t issue of the Saltus Year Book. THAT — .thanks are also due to the advertisers for helping to make it a financial success. WHY A BOARDING SCHOOL? No one who has been closely associated with a day school and a boarding school can have any doubt which benefitsi a child the most. No article on such a subject would be of any interest in England, for it would be proclaiming the obvious. There day schools are for those whose parents cannot afford a boarding school. No one with an in- come of six hundred pounds would consider himself unable to send a child away. But this side of the Atlantic a preparatory school for boys between the ages of nine and fourteen is a new thing and seems to require justification, or, at any rate, an explanation. Nine has been found to be the critical age for absorbing the ideas and ideals that the preparatory school endeavours to instil in young boys. An older boy arrives with other ideas already formed, most of them wrong, and isi a different proposition. At nine a child has left the nurstery routine and yet is not of an age to fit into the adult life of parents or others at home. It would only be parents with great wisdom and, above all, time and patience, who could create a routine at home which would continue and not counteract the benefits of the day school discipline; and correct discipline is beneficial although the word has a harsh meaning to the uninitiated. Parents whose lives are normal have not the time to supervise con- sistently a routine which will at this formative age establish habits of study, tidiness, punctuality and good table manners. There is not a mother who is not distressed daily by feeling a boy is being neglect- ed in one of these respects ' . Small boys conform without any resis- tence to reasonable rulesi which are being obeyed by their contem- poraries. They grouse if older, b ' ut the nine or ten year old will ac- cept the interdict of a master and the inevitable parental argument is not in the picture. It is so diffcult to write of the disadvantages of living at home without seeming to put the affection and intelligence of parents sadly