Vol. CXXVIII No. 45 February 13, 2016

THE HARROVIAN

FOUNDER’S DAYCommemoration Sermon, 7 February, by JEP

The last time I conducted a Sunday service in Chapel was on the occasion of the Commemoration of the Founder, the weekend before I was made Vicar of St Mary’s. It used to be the case that Founder’s Day was celebrated on the nearest weekend to 3 October, the anniversary of John Lyon’s death, and it marked the beginning of the Harrow Football season, the cricket season having finished with the Goose Match on 29 September, Michaelmas day. Founder’s Day has now been moved to the Spring term but it remains a day of Harrow Football.

Almost every aspect of our lives on the Hill equips us for “the world outside” – today is no different: a festival of our own unique game, which, last year, marked its 150th anniversary. Those of you playing in House teams today will do so against your forebears, who now draw upon their years here on the Hill for the “world outside” which “is wondrous wide, But here the world is narrow, One magic thrall unites us all – the name and fame of Harrow.”

That name and fame has been built up by those who have made significant contributions to society – they act as an impetus and an encouragement to us, even now, to consider the claims and considerations of the world outside. Many of our societies are named after OHs who have made a mark in their chosen subjects. Those of you engaged in Shaftesbury Enterprise and Community Service are already working in the “world outside”; many of our societies are ones which engage with the “world outside”; I am delighted that a group of you want to make Amnesty International active again alongside another group who want to launch an Humanitarian Society; articles in the Harrovian often counter the accusation that “here the world is narrow”.

Our reading this morning is an example of James and John engaging in the narrow concerns of self-interest; Jesus responds by raising their personal horizons – service of others is of greater value than a narrow obsession with status and success as it often judged by the world: “whoever would be great among you must be your servant and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all.”

A fortnight ago, a number of you will have visited the Careers Convention – another very valuable event in which many OHs

return to offer their experience and expertise in the “world outside” as they have encountered it. There will not be many stalls dedicated to servant-hood and slavery, but to write off Jesus’ teaching as being irrelevant or unrealistic would be to misunderstand it. Whatever career we choose or, indeed, feel called to, our attitude and approach to the world outside can be marked by care, concern and engagement with wider issues.

Many of you still consider careers in the City and other financial sectors. The charitable concerns of the City of London are extensive even amongst its commercial organisations – later this year, I will serve as chaplain to one of the Sheriffs of the City of London. The task of the Sheriff is essentially legal but he will probably go on to be Lord Mayor where his concern will be to represent the commercial City – the banks, the accountancy and legal firms – internationally. To be Lord Mayor or Sheriff, however, requires you to a member of one of the Livery Companies of the City, whose primary purpose today is the encouragement of charity and responsible business practice in the service of others. Even in the heart of the cut throat commercial world of the financial City of London, there is an expectation of making a wider contribution to the world, which is why the behaviour of some in the banking industry in recent years has been such a scandal.

I have spoken to one OH whose career is in asset management and tax advice, but who is very keen to encourage his clients to consider their philanthropic responsibilities. Obviously not all Harrovians pursue City or financial careers: some more obviously attempt to live out the challenge of today’s reading. William Devas, who arrived at Harrow the year I became Chaplain, is presently CEO of the Glencree Centre for Reconciliation in Ireland. In the most challenging circumstances, Will is engaged with many others of goodwill in discovering ways of honouring diversity yet championing common humanity. One of his direct contemporaries, the Revd David Longe, is Chaplain to the Archbishop of Jerusalem, working at the front line of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Simon Guillebaud, who was Captain of Cricket in 1991, has dedicated his life to the people of “post-genocide” Burundi, where he founded the Great Lakes Outreach in association with Scripture Union. Another OH drawn to Africa has been Tom Dannatt, who has also founded his own charity, Street Child, supporting the orphaned children of Sierra Leone and Liberia, and who has been heavily involved in fighting the recent Ebola outbreak.

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At the Parish Church I am about to embark on a campaign of giving which we are calling Count our Blessings. Today, as we enjoy another festival of our special game and have the opportunity to meet some who have been to School here before us, let us count our blessings and ask how we might make our contribution to the world: the Son of Man came not be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many. Have great Founder’s Day!

HOUSE INSTRUMENTAL COMPETITION

Solo Round, Music Schools, 7 February

Adjudicator: Mr Huw Jones, Director of Music, Merchant Taylors’ SchoolFirst Arratoon Cup: Ga Kitada, Lyon’sSecond: Michael Yeung, The Grove, Oscar Tao, MoretonsThird: Marco Chau, Elmfield

There were another crop of talented musicians on showcase on Sunday evening with the first round of the House Instrumental Competition, the Solos. Michael Yeung, The Grove, had a tremendous start with his performance of Chopin’s Ballade No 1 in G Minor. He demonstrated remarkable ability and, in the flurries of allegro, he showed off his delicate touch. The piece was both accomplished and sensitive throughout, and he carefully handled the joins between the episodes with remarkable accuracy, despite the challenging nature of the piece. Michael Siu, The Knoll, followed with Schulhoff’s Hot Sonate. It was a velvety piece on the saxophone, and quite plaintive

to start, but flowed easily with the piano accompaniment. Siu brought out the melody and had good intonation and vibrato, but was conservative in parts, although the adjudicator thought that his performance was beautiful and had warmth. Francis Bamford, Bradbys, came next with Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C Sharp Minor. Bamford was one the younger musicians in the competition. The piece was delicate yet weighty and Bamford’s performance was both poised and passionate. It’s a great selection to enjoy with its dynamics and its dark overtones. Next was Ga Kitada, Lyon’s, on the piano, who chose Boulez’s Notations I-V and XII. It was an ecstatic piece, which draws upon scales, dissonances and contrasts in its dynamics. Kitada played with feeling and captured the spirit of the movement. There were lots of morsels in his selection and the judge remarked that the performance of the piece was almost as enjoyable as the music. Ryan Chung, Rendalls, was up next with Kreisler’s Liebesleid on the violin. It was a constrast to the previous piece: much more delicate, it drifted along with soft feeling. The performance was gorgeous and highly musical and Chung showed off some wise vibrato and had excellent projection that made the piece appear easy. Oscar Tao, Moretons, played a reduced version

HOUSE INSTRUMENTAL COMPETITION

Small Ensembles, Music Schools, 7 February

Adjudicator: Mr Huw Jones, Director of Music, Merchant Taylors’ SchoolFirst Challenge Cup: ElmfieldSecond: The KnollThird: Moretons

The competition resumed later in the evening for the Small Ensemble Competition. The Grove started with Telemann’s Largo-Allegro-Largo from Tafelmusik Quartet in G Major, with William Davies on flute, Michael Yeung on Oboe, Brian Chiang on violin and Andy Yoon on piano. It was pleasing right from the outset with a confident beginning. The legato lines were well brought out in the piece, and the ensemble’s timing was good which ensured the piece had a gentle and delicate harmony. Overall, The Grove delivered this serious piece in an impressive fashion. The Knoll followed with the famous Vivaldi piece, the Allegro from Concerto in A minor, with Justin Stollery and Keisuke Sano on violins, and Alex Cui on piano.

of Rachmaninoff’s Allegro agitato from Sonata No 2. It had a deep and powerful start that dazzled with proficiency, and the judge found the performance flowing and effortless, and that it showed off a full range while containing well balanced and intricate inner parts. Dexter Wan, Newlands, chose the famous Allegro from Sonata in A major by Franck. It was an excited performance on the violin, and stirring – it rather danced along. Wan played with expression and passion to lend the music a sense of nobility. Ed Rowe, The Head Master’s, followed with Ganne’s Andante et Scherzo on flute. He was expressive, and executed the staccatos masterfully, and the carefully controlled trills gave the piece majesty. Its pace was brisk and light, and the judge particularly lauded the Andante. Max Prasad, The Park, played Debussy’s Assez animé et tres rhythmé from Pour le Piano L95. It was a swift and articulated piece, and impressively played from memory. The melody churned, and the performance was full blooded – Prasad certainly capture the title of the piece with his animation and rhythm. Joshua Harris, West Acre, was also on the piano for Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu in C minor. He also played from memory, and with enviable fluency and smoothness, even when the piece was at a gallop. He draped the piece with fantasy and overall the balance was superb. Our adjudicator remarked on how stunning the middle cantabile was. Eddie Eyton, Druries, was on saxophone to play the lesser known piece Lament for Collessie and The Cooper of Clapham by Heath. The first movement was mournful and slow, and the second movement had a lovely melody which Eyton brought out to highlight the Irish folk features of the piece. Marco Chau, Elmfield, on the violin was the afternoon’s final performer with Lalo’s Allegro non troppo from his Symphonie Espangole. Chau played with intensity, and it was an excellent choice of music to show off his abilities. He captured the full drama and Spanish feel of the piece, and his bow control and projection created a wonderful build up towards the end.

Our adjudicator had a difficult decision to make. Mr Jones applauded Harrow’s musicians who showed advanced proficiency on their instruments and gave very polished performances – a wonderful feat, given the fact that they had had no help from Beaks or tutors. The joy of music is in its creation and it will naturally be a subjective choice when choosing the winners. In the end, Mr Jones awarded 1st place to Kitada, joint runners up to Tao and Yeung, with awarded a High Commendation to Chau. We would like to thank all the performers for some wonderful music, and particularly Mr Mark Smith, Head of Keyboard, who accompanied the boys on the piano.

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HOUSE ART EXHIBITIONPasmore Gallery, 2 February

1st: Rendalls2nd: Elmfield3rd: The Head Master’s

Last week, the Pasmore Gallery welcomed the much-anticipated House Art exhibition. The space featured nearly 200 works by boys from all year groups. Art captains in each of the 12 Houses had curated these and there was eager competition for the grand prize, a palette-shaped trophy, as well as the numerous individual prizes. Ms Lorna Hope, Head of Art at The John Lyon School, adjudicated the competition.

In anticipation of the exhibition, the Art captains could be seen with spirit levels in hand and pencils tucked behind their ears as they prepared their spaces under the oversight of their designated Beak. In the spirit of the Royal Academy’s Summer Show, wall space was maximised into a celebration of Harrow’s Art scene, featuring work from all departments, including exciting sculptural works produced at the new Art space in Churchill Schools. This variety was reflected in Ms Hope’s selections for the evening’s prizes.

Third place for the overall competition was awarded to The Head Master’s. The work was captained by Ed Rowe, whose own piece was a highlight of the exhibition. His three large caskets represented a memento mori in response to the Paris attacks. They provided “sensitive, thought provoking” windows into a destruction scene with half-submerged items in soil. The installation piece had traces of Ai Weiwei’s show at the Royal Academy. Cameron White’s black-and-white photographs of London brilliantly evoked the poignant quality of city life; lone figures and detached people filled space in gritty scenes. The house also featured the winning entry for the Shell category; Freddy Anton-Smith’s portrait of a young girl executed with superb technical ability.

Second place was awarded to Elmfield. The pieces had been curated by Ben Maxwell and shared a sombre quality. This was most evident in Oliver Atkinson’s distressed portraits made with ink and torn paper layers. It was accompanied by Ned Salvin’s moving photograph of a perched man desolate with news of his diagnosis; the use of light was particularly impressive. Maxwell’s paintings showed virtuoso handling of oil paints and colour in his flesh-like paintings of popcorn and stuffing. His painting of fish foetus, having made its debut at the Ghoti

They played with technique and grace, with a poised start and proceeded with feeling, although there were a few rocky rests. Moretons came next with Gerald Barry on oboe, Justin Wong on cello, Oscar Tao on piano. They chose Poulenc’s Allegro from Piano Trio. It had a gentle start and was played with heart. The balance was good throughout the piece, and the ensemble

had good intonation through the extremes of the dynamics, and overall had a captivating performance. Lyon’s chose Destanay’s Tarantelle, Op 16, with Curtis Ho on violin, Chatto Marks on cello, and Ga Kitada and Corran Stewart sharing the piano. The lilting tune of the piece the ensemble carried off brilliantly, and their synchronicity was outstanding in the tricks of the melody. It’s an enchanting piece, and as the adjudicator remarked, “a chromatic for the piano”. The group had a sense of ‘ensemble’, and produced a joyful rendition. Bradbys went with Bridge’s Romance from Set II. Rahul Shah, on clarinet, Francis Bamford, on bassoon, and Jobie Wong, on piano, lulled the audience with soft melodies which were full of lyricism and captured Bridge in the piece, particularly the more romantic, pastoral elements. Their ensemble had good lines, and a pleasing legato. Rendalls, with Adeoluwa Pearse on bassoon, Ryan Chung on violin, and Ashley Chow on piano, chose Tchaikovsky’s Waltz from The Sleeping Beauty. There was good balance between the various parts, a comfortable tempo, with some graceful play. The bassoon took the cello’s part with some aesthetic playing, and the group conveyed the nuance of the waltz with some magic on the high registers. Newlands went with Bach’s Vivace from Double Violin Concerto in D minor, with Dexter Wan and Lewis Johnston on violins, and Michael Camerea on piano. It was another famous piece and these can always be hard to play, but the ensemble executed it well and even at a formidable tempo. There was good support on the various passages, and a strong musical style throughout the performance. The Head Master’s ensemble of Ed Rowe on flute, Anson Lo on violin and Joshua Simoes on piano, performed Doppler’s Andante from Andante et Rondo, Op 25. The piece was artful and embracing, and the ensemble carefully guided the lyrical notes. Together they were expressive and balanced, and ensure that the long melody lines were well brought out. The Park went with the famous Let It Go, by Anderson-Lopez and Lopez that had been arranged for cellos, Kazbek Kandour and Pawit Kochakarn, and Max Prasad on piano. It stood out as the only ‘showtune’ among the classical counterparts, but it held its own and was nicely arranged, with a few fun movements that were reminiscent of Vivaldi. West Acre followed with Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring. Thomas Keeble and Eugene Kim were on violins, and Joshua Harris was on cello to perform this complex pairing of parts that required delicate balance. It was a strange segue into Bach after The Park’s performance, but the ensemble had a pleasant flow and an excellent tempo, and gave Bach’s piece a gorgeous sound. Druries after with Pachelbel’s famous Canon. Eddie Eyton and Rafe Wendelken-Dickson were on the bassoons, with Alexander Wendleken-Dickson on the piano. The articulation of the piece was beautiful, and the ‘détaché’ and staccato made for a unique arrangement for the bassoons. The final ensemble was

Elmfield, who chose Beethoven’s Allegro ma non troppo from String Quartet No 4. Marco Chau and Alberic Mould were on violins, Christopher Willoughby on viola, and Pasa Suksmith on cello. The group had exquisite timing and played with purpose. This is a serious piece of chamber music, which had serious playing and an impressive tempo. They had a fine balance of the voices between instruments that gave the performance the necessary delicacy. Well done to all the musicians involved in the evenings performances!

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FAT BOTTOMED GIRLS: IDEALS OF BEAUTY IN RENAISSANCE ITALY

Alexandra Fielding, OSRG, 1 February

It’s unlikely that the phrase ‘fat bottomed girls’ had ever appeared on the Head Master’s list of the week’s events before last Monday’s Speech Room. However, that evening, a crowd of boys and Beaks gathered in the OSRG for what proved to be a highly enlightening lecture on how the artists of the Renaissance explored the concept of beauty. The speaker, Alexandra Fielding, is a tutor at Art History Abroad, an organisation that offers trips and courses on Italian art and culture, which are often attended by Harrovians. She began the talk by outlining the seven’facets of beauty’ defined in 15th-century art: piety, decorum, sensuality, intellectuality, movement, harmony and the image of ‘man as God’, while drawing parallels between them and modern celebrities in whom they are expressed, from Mother Teresa to Robert Pattinson.

The first incarnation she explored was ‘piety’, exemplified through Donatello’s sculpture of Mary Magdalene. In the work, the saint is portrayed near the end of her life, when she becomes a hermit and dedicates her life to prayer. At first glance, the figure is remarkably incoherent with the theme of beauty: her features are sunken, she had lost her teeth and her hair had grown thick from lack of nurture. Then Mrs Fielding pointed out the crucial detail most boys overlooked was that Mary’s hands, clasped in prayer, were smooth and youthful, and tiny specks of gold were hidden in her hair. Similar subtle signs of an inward grace are a common theme in much of religious artwork, especially, in portraits of Mary, mother of Jesus. She explained that many of such works were also influenced by contemporary philosophical ideas, such as Marsilio Ficino’s principle of beauty being a divine splendour caused by an interior moral goodness.

Next, Mrs. Fielding summarised the ‘decorum’ category. Its main principle is the displaying women as decorative objects, adorned in exquisite dress and jewellery. In art, this mostly manifested through portraits. ‘Decorum’ works highlight the fact that art at the time was made for the adoration of men, which is why in such portraits the subject never makes eye contact with the viewer, so as to not cause discomfort. She then juxtaposed this to works of ‘sensuality’, exemplified by Titian’s famed Venus of Urbino. As the audience noticed, in this genre the model stares directly at you, but with alluring

exhibition last week, impressed the new crowd. Ms Hope prized two of the pieces on show. Anthony Cho’s sensitive portrait of a woman won the evening’s drawing prize and Pasa Suksmith won in the Remove category for his etchings praised for their “wonderful sense of depth”.

First place was awarded to Rendalls. Delicate draughtsmanship was to be seen in Luca Pittalis’ and Harvey Fry’s work of London monuments. Henry Adeson’s pen drawing of a screaming lady in profile had the touch of delicate academic drawing and its composition gave it a modern air. His crosshatching was masterfully achieved. Tom Thacker won the Lower Sixth prize for his photographs of London and Cambridge. His original photographs were projected onto bin bags and recaptured to mark them with creases to achieve a rugged, nostalgic feel. His innovative process set it apart. The Upper Sixth prize was awarded to Lennaert Woudt for his chalk portrait. Dusting chalk and charcoal powder onto a self-made paper surface had produced the ghost-like face. This piece was placed above a triptych of Lucian Freud-inspired portraits.

The Fifth Form prize was awarded to Harry Toller, Druries. Ms Hope commended his painting of a stadium scene for effectively using the subjects in the foreground to render a sense of proximity. Toller was especially successful at conveying the sense of crowding with Lowry-like figures in the background. Will Bryant, Druries, produced a series of striking, small portraits in black and white. The subjects bore charged poses and the surface of the paint had been sanded off to reflect the psychological intensity of the pieces.

Ed Bankes, Newlands, produced a fantastic series of ink scenes that captured the transience of London. While the reference photographs were contemporary, the use of sepia tones and loose figures evoked a sense of timelessness. This, in conjunction with the dynamic and spontaneous marks of the ink, gave the city an ephemeral quality. Cityscapes were also present at The Grove. Seb Mahal created a skyline with watered-down blue tones. Details of the buildings were bleached; creating a successful use of negative space. Victor Paul, Moretons, used photoshop to create a dystopian reality with buildings on scorched earth. This was complemented by a tilt-shift effect that created a mirage-like background. Nature was further explored by James Cole, Bradby’s, with his superb paintings of tumultuous cloud formations.

Commentary was made by Jack Wang, The Knoll, on the role of technology in our lives. His humorous reimagining of Hamlet’s “To be or not to be?” was perfectly executed. Alex Rutherford, Lyon’s, appealed to the same sense of familiar detachment through his Hopper-esque scene of a petrol station. Rickey Sliwinksi, Lyon’s, and Nick Lau, The Park, were praised by their photographs. Sliwinsky captured the essence of solitary city movements and Nick Lau beautifully captured light in a derelict interior.

Thanks must go to the House Art captains and SA, DRJB, and SNP for curating and assembling their respective spaces and the Art technicians for their time and effort in preparing the Art Schools and artwork for the exhibition. We are especially grateful to Ms Hope for her erudite adjudication and to LWH for making the competition possible. The evening was a success and we look forward to the next year.

DAWKINS ON EVOLUTIONNew College of the Humanities, 1 February

On Monday, a group of intrepid Sixth Form RS students set off to see the infamous anti-theist Richard Dawkins speak at the New College of the Humanities. Despite a 30-minute detour courtesy of CEGB, we eventually found the correct building where the lecture had not yet started. After we had slithered into

the lecture halls and found seats without making eye contact with anyone who looked like they had been there for more than five minutes, Richard Dawkins appeared and began to speak on the topic of ‘Evolutionary Biology for non-scientists,’ much to the annoyance of any biologists who had also made the trip. The talk itself lasted around an hour and covered the actual mechanics of evolution itself. Dawkins gave examples of evolution, focusing on species like bats and their unique abilities. He also examined how species are formed and how mutation within species and diversity leads to changes such that eventually some families of the animal will no longer be able to breed with another. He used this to explain the changes in species over time and why some species become redundant, yet with many different – improved versions – living on to this day. For the entirety of the talk, Dawkins stayed away from religion almost entirely and anyone hoping to watch sparks fly left disappointed. George Chichester, Rendalls, managed to get in a question during the floor debate but even this could not spark the debate into life. Rather, Dawkins attempted to stay steadfastly in the scientific sphere – perhaps he was not in the mood for an argument? However, this was not to say the evening was not an enjoyable one and we were privileged to have seen Richard Dawkins live. All in all, it was a good evening off the Hill and thanks are extended to the RS department and Mrs Bailey for organising the event.

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gentleness that is befitting of the provocative theme. ‘Sensuality’ centres on purely physical beauty, and Titian’s work was perfect to demonstrate this. With use of warm hues and soft line the lighting of the piece makes Venus look almost tangible.

Michelangelo’s sculpture of Night was the next exhibit. The audience was quick to point out the peculiarity of the figure, whose physique is far more reminiscent of a male, yet with obvious female parts. The speaker once more entered Renaissance philosophy. At the time, Biblical theology proposed that as man was created in the image of God, then the male form must be the most perfect one among all of nature. This clarified why Michelangelo, a follower of the ideology, decided to create the sculpture of an abstract deity with in such manner, explaining the concept of ‘Man as God’. Philosophers also had mathematical evidence for this idea, finding that the human body is in fact perfectly rationally proportioned, with accurate divisions between parts in what is known as the ‘golden ratio’. This is what Mrs Fielding explained to be ‘intellectual’ beauty; our comprehension of such detail means we are not only outwardly like God, but also mentally. An idea expressed in Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man. The lecture was concluded by a study of ‘movement’ in art as an essential element of beauty. If an artist aims to express the elegance of nature he draws from life and, as nothing that lives is without movement, he fails to do so without incorporating it. A true master of this was, once more, Michelangelo. In his sculpture of the Dying Slave for the tomb of Pope Julius II, he demonstrates it through the ‘S’ shape the subject’s posture forms.

As the talk drew to a close, LWH thanked Mrs Fielding for a hugely informative and entertaining talk and we hope to see her return in the future.

OSRG ARTS SOCIETYBritish Museum, 4 February

On Thursday, eight boys and two Beaks departed from the OSRG to visit the exhibition at the British Museum, entitled Egypt: Faith after the Pharaohs. Mrs Walton, who led the tour and who herself used to curate at the British Museum, was able to tell the boys fascinating details about the building: for example, the Norman Foster roof over the Great Court, one of London’s two Millennium Projects, comprises 3,312 panes of glass, no two of which are the same. Each one had to be sponsored and Mrs Walton has a certificate showing precisely which pane she “owns” – it is directly above the restaurant on the north side!

The exhibition followed the theme of religion over the 1200 years in Egypt from 30 BC, when the land officially became part of the Roman Empire under Augustus, to the end of the Fatimid period in AD 1171, when Saladin took power. Pre-Roman Egypt was firmly polytheistic, and this religious tradition continued with the arrival of the Romans.

However, there were two major transitions in the following centuries: firstly, the shift to a majority Christian population by the fifth century and, secondly, to a majority Muslim population during the tenth century. At times, Judaism thrived alongside both of them.

The sequence of the exhibition was roughly chronological. The curators also introduced juxtapositions of an artefact from a certain period with its counterpart from another: in one display case, for example, sat three maps; one was a mediaeval Florentine projection of the famous world-map of Ptolemy, the second-century Alexandrian scientist, mathematician and geographer; another was an 11th-century copy of the less well-known map of Cosmas Indicopleustes, he who has travelled to India, the sixth-century Alexandrian merchant and Christian; and the third, found in the 11th-century compilation work called The Book of Curiosities, used sources as varied as Ptolemy and the scholars of the 9th century Abbasid caliph Al-Ma’mun.

Of these three, the first was by far the most sophisticated – Ptolemy described in detail the known world from the British Isles and Scandinavia, to Cape Verde, and even to China, even describing the method to project a three-dimensional globe onto two-dimensional paper. Cosmas Indicopleustes, on the other hand, offers a primitive rectangle with very little detail, believing, unlike Ptolemy, that the world is flat. The Book of Curiosities falls somewhere between the two others in terms of quality: it covers less of the world than Ptolemy and with less rigour, containing plenty of vague curves of land, the end result being unrecognisable as a world map unless one knows what to look for.

Beyond the vagaries of mediaeval academia, this correspondent learnt a great deal about how different faiths can interact. The most praiseworthy example of religious co-existence in the history of Egypt occurred under the Muslim caliphs. Admittedly, they had little time for those who kept alive the ancient polytheistic traditions, but their fellow Peoples of the Book, that is Christians and Jews, were tolerated, having only to pay a special jizya tax. It is worth reflecting that those in the Middle East today who wish to revive the Caliphate have a policy towards different faiths far less tolerant than that of the medieval despots whose memory they claim to revere.

What the British Museum excels at is showing how good ideas from one culture can quickly influence and be adopted by others. Especially memorable in this exhibition was how the Egyptian imagery of Isis with her son, Horus, was – with the Ptolemies – developed into a thoroughly Greek-looking goddess with her baby son Harpocrates on her lap, which, in turn, became reinvented into Christian iconography as the Virgin cradling the infant Jesus.

The exhibits were visually quite stunning. They ranged from papyri, manuscripts, sculpture, charms, mosaics, metalwork, jewellery, glass, mummy portraits and coinage to toys, ceramics and textiles. A pair of curtains from Coptic Egypt with intricate woven designs of fat little cupids were in an incredible state of preservation. Boys at Harrow are reminded that the OSRG also has a first rate collection of Coptic textiles dating from the 4th century, which, thanks to some timely conservation two years ago, are now in excellent condition. The School is truly lucky to have such rare artefacts in its collections. Special thanks are due to Mrs Walton and Ms Ransom for giving up their time to take the group to this fascinating exhibition.

DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARDSilver Practice, South Downs National Park,

On the last day of the Autumn term

At the end of term, 105 Fifth Formers, already exhausted by the rigours of term, embarked upon their Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Silver practice in the South Downs National Park. Thoughts of breath-taking landscapes, rolling hills and rich wildlife were far from our minds as we set off bright and early from the Hill after breakfast. There were 20 groups of 4-7 out on the hills, split with walks from Lewes along the ridge to Arundel, using

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three Youth Hostels at South Downs near Lewes, Truleigh Hill above Shoreham, and Littlehampton. This is the account of one of these 20 groups. Each could tell a different tale.

Our large group, an amalgamation of boys the core of which, from Newlands, Rendalls and The Knoll, had successfully completed the Bronze Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, approached the first phase of the expedition with confidence and enthusiasm. Tent pitching was well practiced and rehearsed. The foresight of experienced camper Harvey Fry, Rendalls, in bringing a four-man tent proved instrumental and, once pitched, it was a five-star abode - the envy of the South Downs. We completed our acclimatisation walk on the Friday with ease and felt confident for the following day. That was until we were briefed that evening, after our cooked dinner, by AKM: he told us that the next morning’s walk was to be a distance almost equivalent to the 20-mile Long Ducker. The jaws of our group collectively dropped at the news and, feeling stunned, we meandered back to our respective tents: tired and hopeful of achieving a decent night of rest.

As the sun rose on the first Saturday of the Christmas holidays, so did we at varying ungodly hours. After a full, filling breakfast in the hostel, the first duty of the morning was to collapse our campsite, including Fry’s house-in-a-bag, and get ready for the day’s trek. The scheduled route was to walk along the South Downs Way to the Truleigh Hill Hostel. Our goal clearly in mind’s sight, we set off and were most certainly powered along by the music of Alizhan Aldiyar, Rendalls, who possessed an extensive and eclectic range: ABBA to James Bay! The rolling and vast countryside was inspiring as we hiked over the hills – a stark contrast to the busy Harrow Hill. A magnificent sense of freedom and euphoria set in among the group: we were outdoors hiking in stunning but cold surroundings, listening to music, laughing and having fun; we were at the beginning of our School holiday! Unfortunately, our best karaoke singer, Charles Vivian, The Knoll, began to feel extremely ill; in fact, he would be taken to hospital to be checked that evening. Luca Pittalis, Rendalls and Alessio Kenda, Newlands both seasoned by Military Fitness took turns in carrying Vivian›s rucksack. We continued on for the rest of the day, with Fry our head orienteer and Klaus Krause, Rendalls, keeping the morale of the group high with his quick quips and friendly jibes. After approximately 15 kilometres, the general consensus was that we were indeed making slow progress into the cold wind and, with one of our group feeling unwell, never could we have been happier to see the ever-relaxed JPMB wandering along the track ahead of us. Led by our saviour, we continued until we reached a remote car park on the top of Ditchling Beacon, where we waited, for longer than we expected, the arrival of LWH in his minibus as we watched the sun set over the immense vastness of English Channel to the South. We were duly driven the remainder of the distance to the hostel where we joined groups from The Head Master’s and Rendalls and cooked ourselves a much needed carbohydrate fix - pasta!

The next two days of our intrepid expedition bore a similar format: hike, eat, sleep, and repeat. However, we managed to successfully avoid losing our way and also welcomed Vivian back to the fold. Frequently along the route we would pass

boys from other Houses, such as The Park, Elmfield and the equally large Newlands group, who were able to share with us what terrain lay ahead. The entire Harrow contingent hostel-hopped between South Downs, Truleigh Hill and Littlehampton, camping out for two of the four nights, with our particular group covering a total distance of nearly 80 kilometres. The nights spent around the hostel were fun and very relaxing: chatting with friends and feeling a fantastic sense of achievement from the day’s hike.

A Christmas dinner was served up for the boys on our final night: a roast, potatoes and the classic Christmas pudding – JPMB even managed to bring out his dinner jacket for the occasion! The practice expedition in the South Downs was a terrific experience, although our feet would disagree, and all the boys are now looking forward to our qualifying expedition where we can pick up from where we left off in the arguably much warmer weather of the Cevennes. The boys all wish to extend their sincere appreciation to JPMB for coordinating such a large number of Fifth Formers across three different hostels during a fantastic few days in the South Downs National Park. A further thank you as well to his team of AKM, NCS, TH, CO, LWH, DF, JAPB, SFM and SSJH who all kept our morale successfully high at different stages of the trip.

ALEXANDER SOCIETYBattle of Barnet, Dr Iain Farrell, OSRG, 2 February

Having been a Harrow master for over 30 years, in which he also acted as Director of Studies, it was truly a pleasure to welcome Dr Farrell back to the Hill. A Chemist by profession, Dr Farrell’s passion for history has led him to explore British military history in depth, with his favourite battle being the Battle of Barnet on Easter Sunday 1471. Dr Farrell began by speaking of the importance of studying history, as he feels it is vital that we know how various parts of our history fit into each other, which, according to him, has led to the way we do things today. Of this, he says the 15th century stands out as having been particularly fascinating, citing Barnet as one of many interesting battles fought during this time period.

However, it is a shame that we know so little about the battle today. While we know of its consequences and of the rough location in which it was fought, we know very little of the precise battlefield, as no fragments from the battle have been found, which leaves the Battle of Barnet section in the Barnet Museum looking quite empty.

Dr Farrell set the tone for the battle by describing the Lancaster leader’s defeat to the Yorkists as having been an “own goal”. A nickname of the battle is “the cousin’s war”, as all those leading it were great-great-grandsons of King Edward III. According to Dr Farrell, the weather on the day played a crucial role in the Yorkist victory, as it was the extreme fog that prevented the Lancaster side from being able to attack effectively, due to the low visibility. Another important factor in the battle was the use of hand guns, with Barnet having been one of the first battles in England in which these were used. Dr Farrell described them as having been narrow metal sticks in which you would load and ignite gunpowder, hoping that the chosen object, normally a stone or a piece of lead, would fire in the right direction. He said the distance the object travelled was based on how much gunpowder was used. However, he said that one of the main hindrances in a war was losing men to self-inflicted injuries from having guns explode in their hands. In addition to the frequently used bows and arrows, soldiers would use cannons as an attack mechanism.

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government, as his father died while he was still very young. He was never much of a fighter and because of this, despite being very honourable, was never seen to have been a good or strong king by those around him.

One of those ruling in his name was Richard, Duke of York. Richard was second in line to the throne until Henry’s wife gave birth to a son, Henry VII, though Dr Farrell pointed out that we are still unsure if he was actually Henry VI’s son! Richard grew tired of Henry’s kingship and felt England would be better suited with a strong King with a military history. However, when he took his case in favour of the impeachment of Henry VI to parliament, it was sharply rejected by those who felt it was unfair to depose a monarch who had done absolutely nothing wrong to deserve this potential ousting. Richard and his eldest son were killed in battles leading up to Barnet, leaving Edward as the only possible successor to the throne from the Yorkist side.

The actual battle was fought between Richard Neville, 16th

Earl of Warwick, “the kingmaker”, and Edward IV. Neville adopted this nickname from being the supposed controller of both Henry VI and Edward IV. He originally supported the Yorkists, but switched to the Lancastrians. At the battle itself, he fought for the Lancastrians.

Dr Farrell believes the primary causes of the battle was the failure of Henry VI as king, the blood feuds between noble families, the fact that it was all a proxy war supported by both the king of France and the Duke of Burgundy and because of the feudal dues owed by men to their Lords who came from either side of the family and fought at the battle.

Dr Farrell then elaborated on the actual strategy used in medieval battles. The majority of the men would be in the centre, with the two kings to the rear. At the front would be the archers and around the kings at the rear would have been the cavalry - a practice adopted following the dreadful losses of horses from flying arrows in the Battle of Agincourt.

Dr Farrell also spoke of the importance of the terrain. The ideal conditions would be to be situated on high ground with the wind, to propel you, and the sun, to shine light in the enemy’s eyes, behind you. Unfortunately, none of this was considered on the day given the treacherous weather conditions.

On the morning itself, both sides got very close to each other, about 500m apart, but did not realise this due to the low visibility. Warwick spent a few hours firing cannons in the direction of the Yorkists, trying to do some damage, but didn’t realise that, due to their proximity, the cannon balls were actually flying over the Yorkists’ heads. At 4am, when Edward was ready, the battle began. It is estimated that each side had approximately 20,000 men.

We know that the person on the right, although we don’t know whether this was Gloucester or Essex, advanced left and put pressure on the centre. The middle stage of the battle was at around 5am. The final stage, at around 6am, began when Oxford’s men, around 800 of them, accidentally began to fire at their own men, due to communication errors. Montagu and Warwick were both killed, signifying victory for the Yorkists.

The interesting thing with this battle was that, due to diffracted light rays in the fog, it looked as if there were three suns over the battlefield. Because of this, many men on both sides were quite apprehensive when it came to fighting, citing the fact that it could have been an omen from God. Edward, with his persuasive powers, convinced his men that this meant God was supporting the three sons of York.

Reflecting on the battle, Dr Farrell spoke of how chaotic everything must have been. He estimated that each man would fire around five arrows per minute. With around 5,000 archers, this meant there were around 25,000 arrows flying over the battlefield for around ten minutes. Dr Farrell spoke of how the Tonton skulls give us information on this brutality from the injuries that were sustained to the heads of the soldiers. He also spoke of how the ‘Paston letters’ have been especially helpful in establishing what actually happened at Barnet.

Following the battle, Queen Margaret’s army were defeated at Tewkesbury, Edward, Prince of Wales, was killed, as was King Henry VI in the Tower of London. Edward IV reigned as king until his death, a reign which saw him execute his brother George in 1478. Richard III stole the throne from his nephews, ‘the princes of the tower’ in 1483 and executed Hastings once he bcame king. Following the Earl of Oxford’s defeat of Richard III at Bosworth in 1485, Henry VII was placed on the throne, marking the beginning of the Tudor dynasty.

Overall, Dr Farrell delivered an extremely insightful and interesting talk to the Alexander Society, for which we are very grateful. Thanks go to MPS for hosting the event as well.

GEOGRAPHY SOCIETYCharlie Allman-Brown OH, Nepal and the Great

Himalayan Trail, OH Room, 2 February

Mr Charles Allman-Brown was an OH in Druries where he captained the first XV and played in the Xl. He addressed the Geography Society about the Great Himalayan Trail. To put things into perspective, fewer than 200 people have completed the Great Himalayan Trail and is said to be like climbing up Snowdon every day and a half, whereas nearly 7,000 people have climbed Mount Everest. Furthermore, the Trail is about 2,000 miles long and only the Nepal and Bhutan sections have been documented thoroughly, even though parts of it are in Kashmir, India and Tibet. You can really understand how hard this walk would be for anyone. After leaving Harrow, Mr Allman-Brown went on to do History and Politics of the Middle East at Durham University and then joined the Irish Guards, where he stayed for eight and a half years. The Great Himalayan Trail has two routes for the different seasons. The summer one is the higher route and the winter one is the lower route. It took Mr Allman-Brown 84 days and the trekking included jungles, and swamps, as well as high snow passes and rocky cliffs. In order to do the Himalayan Trail you are required to have at least one person with as a guide so that, if you do happen to fall or the routes change, you are not on your own and there is someone to help you on the journey. Before everyone leaves, they go for a Puja, where they receive a spiritual blessing so that the walk is good and the walker is kept safe. Mr Allman-Brown’s backpack started at weighing only 30kg and, as he had no porters, he could only carry necessities and was limited to three songs every night on his iShuffle to save power.

The start of the journey was a 27-hour bus journey from Kathmandu to a small Nepalese village. Traditionally, people live upstairs and animals downstairs, and a lot of people make their living providing accommodation to walkers doing parts of the route. The route itself contained homemade bridges that, if they were destroyed, would be rebuilt by the villagers who relied on them to travel in between. You had to go slowly on the route as you were required to acclimatise and had to stop for food such for snacks, which in Nepal were rice, potato and chilli, as well as cheese made from yak milk. His longest day was 16 hours and, when he reached Katchachunda base camp, he had altitude sickness as it was at 5000m. He would go two to three weeks with watching TV and 27 days without having a shower. He explained how the locals were always willing to provide shelter and food in exchange for cigarettes and food. He then passed Mount Macalu, which is the fourth highest mountain in the world, and travelled along the Lhumba-sumbha passes, which he described like being on the moon as nothing grows and it is all just barren land. One of his main problems was animal bites, such as leeches, and blisters, for which he was required to put 60 pieces of compi to stop them affecting his walking and getting bigger. He reminded us how privileged we are, as many people here don’t get the same opportunities, and he talked when he was walking to a village where they stunned a pig and sold the meat for a small price

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CALEDONIAN SOCIETY6 February

On Saturday night, the carefully selected reelers of the Sixth Form assembled in the Shepherd Churchill Hall for a home fixture with St Mary’s Ascot and Beneden. Having arrived at 7pm, boys were tiring of comparing dinner jackets and had begun eyeing the champagne flutes that the catering staff were laying out on the trestle tables. Therefore, the relief was tangible when the girls finally arrived. There were a few familiar faces among them and by the time the first drinks had been served the conversation was flowing.

Dinner was then served. The boys had been warned that the girls’ schools were stricter on alcohol than our own Beaks and the girls ought to only have a third of the wine on the table. Obligingly, the boys went far beyond the call of duty and ensured that there was barely any opportunity for the girls to upset their masters by drinking anything at all. Having altruistically taken care of the wine, and made a valiant attempt to eat the food placed in front of them, the company moved across to the makeshift dance floor in what would usually be Moretons’ and The Park’s House areas. The reeling began with the Dashing White Sergeant, which was mostly done well with only one all-male group spotted. This was encouraging as even the most deficient reeler ought to be able to do this easiest of reels. The Eightsome Reel was, thankfully, also successful. Unsurprisingly, given the quality of the rehearsals, Hamilton House and Strip the Willow were a little more confused. The Harrovians had a little trouble in learning to use the whole length of the dance floor but most people pulled it together for the second attempt. The Reel of the 51st was written by a PoW during the Second World War to rally the men under his command in the face of adversity. It had a similar effect on the boys on Saturday night and was a decidedly more orderly spectacle than the preceding reels. Unfortunately, there was not enough time dance the Duke of Perth, which was scheduled to be the last reel, due to the length of the intervals in between reels.

During these intervals there was the opportunity to indulge in some more modern dancing as DJ Straight Circle a.k.a Fergus

to other villages. He also met a lot of people who were doing similar things, including a British Ghurkha team who were trying to reache the summit of Mount Macalu, a couple who had met his friend who had done the route the year before, and a man who was going to write a book on an illegal cannabis-growing village in the Himalayas, who he found smoking it along the way. One of his most scary days was when he got lost in a jungle and the path just stopped. They were stuck in the jungle for four days and had made 17 abseils. When they finally reached a village, it turned out that they had gone the wrong way and the map was wrong as, due to avalanches, mud slides and snow falls, the path was always changing. He took 3 to 4 hours trying to get through a snow drift one day and had to make a descend of 300m. Continuing on, he eventually made it to Lukla, where many people fly in to to get to Everest and which is considered to be the most dangerous airport in the world. After this, he descended down into Kathmandu, where he changed guides and bought new permits. The most amazing thing about the trip is that some people in the area only ever travel a distance equivalent to that between Harrow and Wembley, and he was the first foreigner they had ever seen. Imagine that. He finished at the Nepali border with India and in total lost two stone on the journey and passed 3000 to 4000 lakes. He then took a 57-hour bus journey back to Kathmandu and said that he ate a lot of biscuits and was looking forward to all the food he had gone without. He recommended that if you were to ever the do the journey, you must be flexible and work hard and you will be able to achieve it.

Findlay, Elmfield, put on some club classics, like Let’s Dance by David Bowie. Some boys who were not confident enough to show off their frankly second-rate dance moves retreated to the balcony for some fresh air, braving the elements and JDBM, who was enforcing the teaching of the Catholic catechism outside.

There were the usual protracted goodbyes and the girls eventually left, leaving the boys to put the Shepherd Churchill back into good order for Founder’s Day. The evening was thoroughly enjoyable, and I would like to thank PDH, Ludo Findlay, and all the other Beaks and boys involved in the organisation and running of the evening for their hard work.

CLASSICAL SOCIETYDeno Leventis Library, 3 February

Last Wednesday, packed lunches in hand, a select group of the school’s Classicists gathered in the Deno Leventis Library to discuss Milton’s epyllion, In Quintum Novembris. We were fortunate enough to be led by Dr Victoria Moul, a professor at King’s College London, who gave an introduction to neo-classical literature and proceeded to examine John Milton’s mini-epic, which he wrote, allegedly, at the age of 17. This mini-epic was published in Milton’s 1645 Poems, his breakthrough collection, which was split into Latin and English. After the Renaissance, Dr Moul explained, Latin became the international language for literature and was spoken in courts and studied vigorously at school. In many institutions, Harrow included, boys were obliged to speak only in Latin or Greek. Furthermore, it was less censored and so could be more sexually or politically edgy. Thus it was the norm to publish Latin poetry, and this was done by poets such as Thomas Campion, George Herbert and Andrew Marvell.

In fact, Shakespeare, who was not as proficient in Latin poetry, was the exception. Laced with Homeric references, and several peculiar links with Paradise Lost, In quintum Novembris describes the Gunpowder Plot, a common literary subject of the era, and was fiercely anti-Catholic in tone. It mocks the Pope for being a “secretus adulter” (secretive adulterer) and carrying “panificosque deos” (gods made out of bread); this was a time of great Catholic suspicion and poets were eager to pledge their alliance to Protestantism and James I. Being an epyllion, it is in hexameter and very extravagant – classical poets, such as Catullus, were famous for them. Hence it is riddled with metaphorical, chiastic, beautifully carved phrases, for example “piceis liquido natat aere pennis” (with black wings he swam the liquid air), or “caerulae fumanti turbine flammae” (with his smoking whirls of blue-sky flame), which describe how the devil, having roamed the earth, found pious England and desired to corrupt it, so convinced the Pope to orchestrate the infamous parliamentary attack. It was an extremely interesting session and thanks must be given to Dr Moul for being generous enough to visit, and to JLR for organizing the event.

SCIENCE SOCIETYNeuroeconomics, Gus Machaco, The Knoll,

Chemistry Labs, 5 February

Last Friday, there was a lecture organized by the Science Society. It was a room half filled with Sixth Form scientists and economists and other half Lower School abecedarians.The subject of the talk did not fit neatly into any specific pre-existing mould. Instead, it stood at the fortuitous intersection point of three different fields: economics, psychology and science. It was an area of study, he said, that sought to explain how people really made decisions, acknowledging that humans were not always as noble in reason and infinite in faculty as

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many textbooks would have you believe*, and trying to create models to adapt to these often overlooked realities.

After having described several key areas of the brain that were thought to be responsible for decision making (chiefly the frontal and pre-frontal cortex as well as the limbic system), Machado quickly turned to the first of four topics he was looking to cover in his talk: decision making under uncertainty. Here, the key point to understand was that the standard theory of decision making did not always account for the decisions people actually make. For instance, many more people would choose to have a guaranteed pay-out of £460 rather than flip-a-coin to have a ½ chance of winning £1,000, despite the average expected utility of the latter being higher than that of the former. Under the standard theory that takes people to carefully compare the expected utilities of their different options, such an outcome would seem irrational, and yet in real world conditions it is often the one that actually takes place. This is known as Bernoulli’s error and could be explained by considering that, when making decisions, two systems of the brain are used. System 1 is supposed to be used for quick and impulsive decisions, while System 2 is thought to be used for logical, laborious decisions that involve thinking thoroughly about the benefits and drawbacks of taking a particular choice. System 2 is the one which the standard theory predicts most people will use all the time, but actually decision-making is commonly a mix between the two, which could account for the discrepancy between real life and the model expectation. Machado also spoke about the insular cortex, which tries to stimulate the possible negative consequences of a decision, as well as dopamine, which increases ‘happiness’ levels after an unexpected win. This may explain scientifically how the thought process under uncertainty might be influenced to produce potentially undesirable outcomes.

The next part of his talk was about risk aversion, the notion that if someone, say, loses £10, he will feel sad to a greater extent than he would feel happy if he gained the same amount of money. The key part of the brain here, he said, was the amygdala; scientific research has shown that if a person’s amygdala is damaged they will tend to be less risk-averse in comparison to someone whose amygdala is normally functioning. To further illustrate this, he picked on a volunteer in the audience to quickly say whether after given £15 he would rather keep £5 or lose £10. Unfortunately, our audience member proved to be ‘in apprehension like a God’, rapidly realising that he was part of an experiment designed to prove that he was irrational and so did the opposite of what his brain told him, saying ‘lose £10’ rather than the natural ‘keep £5’ to avoid being labelled as such!

After this, Machado turned to speak of intertemporal choice. He explicated that although most people would rather have one sweet today rather than two tomorrow, at the same time most, strangely, would rather have two sweets in 101 days rather than one in 100 days – a phenomenon that appears queer since it would at first seem that the outcome of the same decision should not change depending on whether it is now or in 100 days the outcome of the decision actually affects the decision-taker. He chose to illuminate this in terms of the idea of discounted utility, bringing in the notion that value is discounted more rapidly over short periods of time than over long; if correct, this is a succinct explanation for the aforementioned occurrence. He returned to the limbic system, with the additional point that it has a smaller effect on future decisions than on current ones, and serotonin was also spoken about as being the key hormone that increases discounting of value and thus increases impulsiveness. Cortisol too was said to be highly correlative with impulsivity, though in the opposite way – if there is little as there is in frequent drug users one will tend to be extremely myopic, which explains why it is so difficult for those taking drugs to stop of their own accord.

Finally, Machado spoke about social decision-making, starting with a game of prisoners’ dilemma to set the requisite tone.

Two members of the audience were asked to say whether they would ‘keep’ or ‘share’ a pair of skittles; however, if both decided to ‘keep’ then neither would get anything, and if one kept while another shared then the one who kept would receive the entire bag while the one who shared would receive nothing for his benevolence. As the theory predicted, in a short term situation with no opportunity to communicate both players chose to keep and Machado was left with the bag of skittles to himself. Here he also spoke about oxytocin, a hormone that promotes trust, and through highlighting the increase in dopamine that is derived through either giving or receiving money, raised the question of whether there can actually be a truly selfless act; this however, was a query for another day.The Science Society thanks Machado for a highly informative talk on a fascinating topic.

*“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!”an extract from Hamlet’s monologue as he speaks to childhood friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Hamlet.

17 FEBRUARY 1851This was the date that OH Sir John Gardner Wilkinson purchased from Sotheby’s in London a 5th century BC, red-figure oinochoe decorated with a naked youth wheeling a hoop with a hooked stick. It was Lot 1089 and cost Gardner Wilkinson 16 shillings, an amount equivalent to just under 78 pence today. Gardner Wilkinson gave his immense collection of Greek, Etruscan and Egyptian material to the School in 1864. The oinochoe was part of the donation. For many years it was displayed on top of the bookcases in the Vaughan Library.

In the 1920s, the Oxford professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, Dr John Davidson Beazley, commenced his lifetime study of ancient Greek vases. His approach was to look at the characteristic, distinguishing styles of vase painting and thereby seek to identify the hand of individual painters. He looked at such things as technique, subject and other very subtle kinds of attribute. He visited Harrow and examined the oinochoe in the Wilkinson collection. It was an exciting discovery because he had never before seen a figure painted in this particular way. For him, the artist who created the youth with his hoop and stick had not been identified before, so Beazley gave him the name of “The Harrow Painter”, and Wilkinson’s oinochoe was given the name “The Harrow Vase”, i.e .the Name Vase of The Harrow Painter. In classical archaeology, a Name Vase is a specific vessel whose painter's name is unknown but whose workshop style has been identified. The allocation of such names was a scholarly convention because the majority of ancient Greek vase painters did not sign their works. For academic discussion and analysis of the work and career of individual artists, conventional names were needed in order

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MATHSRoyal Horticultural Halls, 4 February

On Tuesday, the Senior Maths Team, comprising Callum McLean, Druries, Tony Kim, Bradbys, Steven Yang, The Park, and Curtis Ho, Lyon’s, travelled to the Royal Horticultural Halls for the national final of the Senior Team Maths Challenge. As reigning champions, there was a lot of expectation on their shoulders and they were hoping to win the title for an unprecedented third year.

The competition starts with the “poster round” – a separate competition from the main event – and this year the theme was Kirkman’s Schoolgirl )Problem and the corresponding branch of mathematics, Steiner Systems. The team’s poster was a fine effort and it went on the wall to be judged alongside the other teams’ work.

Then the competition proper got underway with the “Team Round” – ten tough questions to work on in 40 minutes. JPBH, who accompanied the team, was particularly pleased that three of the questions he had submitted to the setting committee had made the final cut and were now stimulating the minds of some of the best mathematicians in the country. Only six of the 86 competing teams successfully completed all the questions, and Harrow were one of them – a most promising start.

Next followed the “crossnumber” – much like a crossword but with numbers. This has the added challenge that each half of the team only has access to half the clues, meaning that it can be difficult to know what to work on next. Again the team made it through this round with top marks and were jointly leading with one round to go.

In the final round – the “shuttle” – it is notoriously easy to lose marks, since each question depends on the previous answer and there is a pressing time limit. Despite one small error, which was quickly corrected, Harrow produced an excellent performance to score the second-highest possible mark.

As the final results were collated, we all waited with bated breath to see whether the team had done enough. It was revealed that three teams were tied for the title but, unfortunately, Harrow was not one of them, with all joint champions scoring full marks. Having produced an almost perfect performance, achieving fourth was a hard result to accept for the boys, who had worked so hard and come so close to retaining the title. However, a score of 246 points from a possible 248 is still an exceptional achievement and placing fourth nationally in such a prestigious event remains something of which all four team members can be very proud.

This event marked the end of the competitive year for our senior team, and thanks are due to both VI3s – McLean and

WINGS WHEREWITHThe slogan on New Hampshire licence plates is “Live Free or Die.” These licence plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

to designate them. Dr Beazley was the first scholar to study Athenian vase painters systematically and allocate names to them. Since that first attribution, Beazley went on to study Greek vases in collections all over the world and was able to find well over 80 vessels that had been painted by the same hand as produced the youth with his hoop on the Harrow Vase. Thus, today, in the collections of museums from afar afield as Aachen, Agrigento, Altenburg, Baltimore, Berlin, Beverly Hills, Brisbane, Florence, Frankfurt, Harvard, Leipzig, Leningrad, Paris, Palermo, Philadelphia, Malibu, Munich, Naples, Rome, Schwerin and The Vatican can be found examples of vases by The Harrow Painter.

And if you were wondering what exactly an oinochoe might be – well, it is a wine jug with a trefoil-shaped rim and long handle. Come in to the OSRG and see the Name Vase of the very Harrow Painter that began Professor Beazley’s extraordinary journey of art historical study and research, and which caught the eye of Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, exactly 165 years ago.

Kim – for all they have contributed to Mathematics over the years; they will both be missed and wish them all the best for their future studies. Particular thanks are due to McLean for five years of dedicated involvement in the team, including his pivotal role in two national titles and the School’s first ever Hans Woyda championship victory last year.

GAFFE AND GOWN“Your half-term report will basically be bile on a piece of paper.”

“You have to put the inky thing on the paper and wiggle it about.”

“Sir, every answer’s the same... except different.”

“Boys, if the Greeks had figured out calculus, then we would have had a man on the moon 1000 years ago.” “Sir, the Greeks used olive oil candles.”

“Sir, are there any new species of animal on Earth?” “Other than you, boy, I don’t think so.”

Caught drawing on the whiteboard, “You boy! What have you drawn?” “Uh, sir, this is a parabola and these, sir, are circles.”

“Sir, I was thinking...” “Oh, no, please don’t.”

HERE AND THEREGev Arnsberg, Andrew Chan, Karamvir Kumar, and George Reid, all Moretons, invested £100,000 of virtual money on the London Stock Exchange. Over a three-month period, the performance of their portfolio has beaten off competition from over 10,000 teams who participated and they have qualified for the semi-final of the IFS Student Investor Challenge. The semi-final commences in late February.

Congratulations to Priyen Morjaria, Newlands, for being named among the 12 shortlisted entrants in this year’s Design Museum competition, ‘Changing Lives: Travel, Migration and Mobility.’ Following a highly competitive judging process, including senior representatives from the Design Museum, Creative and Cultural Skills, and Margaret Cubbage, Curator of the Designers in Residence 2015 Migration exhibition, Morjaria was selected to compete in the final in March.

Harrow School has been named as Harrow Mencap’s School of the Year for 2014-2015. Boys from Community Service have been raising money for Harrow Mencap for a number of years, through collections outside local supermarkets and by arranging concerts. Christopher Willoughby, Elmfield, and Ryan Chung, Rendalls, who organised and performed in last year’s Concert of English Music, collected the award at Harrow Mencap’s recent AGM.

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CROSS COUNTRYKing Henry VIII Relays, Coventry, 3 February

An exciting race, with the top five schools all very close together in the final laps. Harrow came sixth of 46 teams. James Millett ran first, putting the team in sixth place by the end of his 2.3-mile lap of 00:12:40. Oliver Acar and Angus Denison-Smith ran the second and third lap, with Louis Clarke following in the fourth. Louis ran the fastest Harrow lap of 00:12:09. James Bird ran fifth and then George Grassly completed the racewith a time of 00:12:14. The boys retained their place from last year and should be encouraged by running a total of 16 seconds faster this year.

Wellington Relays, 6 February

On Saturday, three teams took part in the Wellington Relays, a fast event of five laps of 1.34 miles. In the howling wind, it took some energy to get through the first stretch of fields and then up through muddy and boggy woodland. Our teams ran very well, with the Intermediate A team coming first. The team consisted of Angus Denison-Smith, Elmfield, Albie Tremlett, The Park, Freddie Heffer, Elmfield, William Mitchell, Bradbys, and George Grassly, The Knoll.

The Senior team in the Wellington Relays came third of 22 teams, with Louis Clarke winning the fastest lap in the entire Senior race. The other runners were James Millett, Newlands, who ran the fifth fastest lap in the race, James Bird, West Acre, Ga Kitada, Lyon’s, and Aditya Murjani, Moretons.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS ONRemembering OHs who died for their country

2nd Lieutenant J. Pringle was in Moretons from Michaelmas 1899 to the Summer term of 1904. His father was the managing director of a rope manufacturing company. Whilst James was at Harrow, he was a keen boxer, his most notable achievement being coming second in the Public Schools’ Heavy-Weight Boxing Competition at Aldershot. After he left Harrow, Lieutenant Pringle spent a year in Europe learning a variety of languages, after which he travelled across the globe. On the outbreak of War, Pringle joined the London Scottish and received a Commission in the Highland Light Infantry in February 1916. Whilst training to be an officer in Edinburgh, he contracted meningitis in camp and died in hospital after only three days’ illness at the age of 29 on the 8 February 1916, 100 years ago this week.

2nd Lieutenant P.L. May and 2nd Lieutenant I.W. Garnett also lost their lives 100 years ago this week.

GALLIPOLI REMEMBEREDCentenary of the Final Withdrawal,

Sandingham, 10 January

Roger Boissier, Elmfield and West Acre 1943-1948, School Governor 1976-96, and Richard de Robeck, Druries 1956-1961, descendants of those who took part in the Gallipoli campaign, attended a service in the parish Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sandringham, Norfolk, in the presence of HM the Queen, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh,HRH The Duke & HRH Duchess of Cambridge and the parents of the Duchess.

January 2016 marked the centenary of the final Gallipoli evacuation and the end of the campaign. The service was followed by the laying of wreaths by HM The Queen, HRH Duke of Edinburgh, Patron , The Gallipoli Association, and HRH The Duke of Cambridge at the Sandringham War Memorial to mark the centenary of the final withdrawal of the Allied Forcers from the Gallipoli Peninsula.

Some 559,000 Allied personnel were committed during the whole campaign: 420,000 were English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Empire troops, 50,000 Australians, 13,000 New Zealanders and 80,000 French. The Allies had over 250,000 casualties, of whom 58,000 died, including many young OHs. Approximately 196,000 were evacuated wounded or sick, amongst them Lt. Cdr EG.. Boissier DSC, RNVR, Royal Naval Division, father of Roger Boissier, evacuated in June 1915, having been severely wounded during the second battle of Achi Baba on 8 May 1915, just a few weeks after landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April, ANZAC Day.

Casualties to Ottoman forces, with some Germans, numbered in excess of 300,000 and over 87,000 died.

The ill-fated campaign took place in an area little bigger than the city of Norwich amid appalling conditions, such as

flies, lack of water, equipment and proper sanitation. Later on, torrential rain and a freak spell of sub zero temperatures had to be endured, to say nothing of the desperate close-quarter fighting throughout the campaign.

Richard de Robeck and Roger Boissier attended a Service to Commemorate the Centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign, held at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Memorial, Cape Helles, on 24 April 2015, as previously reported in Issue No 24, May 16, 2015, of The Harrovian.

In December 1915, just over 100,000 men were evacuated in a masterly operation that caused no additional casualties. During the night of 8-9 January 1916, another successful evacuation of 40,000 men was completed. These evacuations were skilfully planned and undertaken under the leadership of Richard de Robeck’s great uncle, who became Admiral of the Fleet,Sir John de Robeck, who commanded the naval operations at Gallipoli. After a nine-month-long disastrous campaign, the struggle had come to an unsuccessful end.

SWIMMINGWarwick 100s at Warwick School, 4 February

The ten best swimmers from Harrow travelled to Warwick School on Thursday to compete with eight of the top schools in the country. We entered both the Senior and Intermediate categories, placing second overall in each. Our Intermediate Medley Relay and Senior Freestyle Relay teams won their events. Individual gold and trophies were won by Aaron Pullen, Lyon’s, James Bailey, Newlands, and Hugh Riches, West Acre. Other impressive individual performances were given by Michael Camerea, Newlands, in the 100m breaststroke, Oli Rosson-Jones, Lyon’s, in the butterfly and Michael Ma, Moretons, in the breaststroke events.

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FENCINGTriangular v Tonbridge and Westminster, away at

Tonbridge, 6 February

An elite Harrow team, comprised solely of Sixth Formers, played a tough annual Triangular vs Tonbridge and Westminster, hosted at Tonbridge School. Everything started well, with Harrow cruising to victory in both Foil A and B. The Epee was much closer, with all three schools drawing. When points were totted up, Harrow were pipped to the post by Westminster by one point, thereby coming second. The sabre was another tough slog and Harrow were finally outclassed by a superior Tonbridge side, coming second again. With our wins in the foil though, Harrow came out as overall winners by one point. Well done to all involved. A great fixture in preparation for the Public Schools Competition in March.

Won, Foil A - Patrick Caffrey, The Head Master’s, Seth Liebowitz, DruriesWon, Foil B - Ed Bankes, Newlands, Eu Sheng Ho, NewlandsDrew, Epee - Eu Sheng Ho, Roman Aubry, Newlands2nd, Sabre - Caffrey, Liebowitz

GOLF The School v Aldenham, Sandy Lodge Golf Club

The School lost 1-2, 2 February

Aidan Osobase, Moretons, Lost 5 & 3Elliot Obatoyinbo, The Knoll, Won 4 & 3Ed Bayne, Bradbys, Lost 5 & 3

This game was an exciting prospect as the winners would secure a place in the National Finals at St Andrews in April. Last year Harrow reached the finals held at Royal St Georges, and we were looking to repeat that success.

As it was the regional final we were required to use a neutral course. Sandy Lodge is positioned well for both schools and is an excellent test of golf. The course also, luckily for us, drains well, and the recent heavy downpours had not ruined the playing surface too much. A clear, cold, windy sunny day provided challenging conditions. The strong winds were difficult to read and keeping line and length was going to be difficult.

We had played Aldenham’s B team back in September in the first round of the ISGA Trophy. We knew that their A team would be much tougher opposition. Unfortunately for us this proved to be the case. Osobase playing in the no.1 slot was up against a very strong performer, a scratch golfer who had never lost a school game. Aldenham went 3 up after three

and kept a commanding lead throughout the match. Osobase kept up with the high standard but lost a further two holes, eventually losing 5 and 3. Obatoyinbo played very well from the first hole, dropping only a few shots in the whole round. The Aldenham no 2 was not going to be a push over. Both players started with a birdie on the first. Aldenham followed this up with a birdie on the second. By the seventh, Obatoyinbo had gained the lead and followed this up with wins on 8, 11 and 12, and narrowly missed a short putt on 13 which would have taken the game to five up. Aldenham won the 14th with a long putt. Obatoyinbo won the 15th with a par to close out the game and to win 4 and 3.

Bayne started well in the third match and it was all square at the turn. The wheels came off at that point and Aldenham took control of the game eventually winning 5 and 3.

SQUASHThe School v St Paul’s, Away, 4 February

1st V Won 3-2J.A. Jordache, Moretons, Lost 0-3E.C. Eaton Hart, Rendalls, Lost 0-3A.R. Huo, The Head Master’s, Won 3-2H.T. Scott Lyon, Newlands, Won 3-0M.N. Sodi, West Acre, Won 3-1

2nd V Lost 0-2W.J.C Fenwick, The Park, Lost 2-3D.C. Billings, Lyon’s, Lost 2-3

Yearlings Lost 0-5F.J.K. Scott, Rendalls, Lost 0-3M.F. Little, Rendalls, Lost 2-3A.C. Holmes, The Grove, Lost 1-3C.D. Powell, The Grove, Lost 0-3W.A. Orr Ewing, Elmfield, Lost 0-3

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1st V Won 4-1J.A. Jordache, Moretons, Lost to D Bernardi, Newlands, 1-3E.C. Eaton Hart, Rendalls, beat GM Harper, Newlands, 3-2A.R. Huo, The Head Master’s, beat A Chamberlain, Druries, 3-0H.T. Scott Lyon, Newlands, beat A James The Knoll 19753, 3-1B. Sodi, West Acre, beat A Chamberlain, Druries, 3-0.

RUGBYDevelopment XV v Brighton College, Away,

6 February, Won 45-0

Astute game management from the half backs, matched with good go forward and ball retention by the forwards, saw Harrow take a 19-point lead at half-time. After half-time, a new look Harrow side rediscovered their patience and, building on some excellent phase play orchestrated by M. Vunipola, The Knoll, and A. Gliksten, The Park, ruthlessly ran in four unanswered tries. Brighton’s inability to score was in part due to robust defence, but more a product of the Harrow team’s impressive ability to keep hold of the ball for long periods of the game. The final score was 45-0, with hat-tricks from C. Sirker, The Knoll, and R. Bird-Tulloch, The Park, both back from lengthy injury spells and a trademark rampaging score from Miller.

HOCKEYThe School 1st XI v Merchant Taylors' School,

Away, Lost 0-2

The 1st XI came up against a talented and well-organised Merchant Taylors' side and were unlucky to lose 0-2. Andrew Taylor made some fine saves in goal and his opposite number also excelled, managing to keep the Harrow attacks at bay. Had there been a little more precision from short corners and in the final third, the Harrow XI may have got more out of the match.

Results2nd XI v Merchant Taylors' School Lost 0-53rd XI v Merchant Taylors' School Lost 2-5

Yearlings A Away Eton College Lost 0-4Yearlings B Away Eton College Lost 0-5

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SOCCERThe 1st XI v Wellington College, Away, Won 2-0

After a nervy start Harrow dominated this game and will only be disappointed that they didn’t score more. Goals by C. Jordan, Bradbys, and G. O’ Malley, Lyon’s.

Results2nd XI v Wellington College Draw 1-13rd XI v Wellington College Won 3-04th XI v Wellington College Won 5-0Colts A v Wellington College Won 5-1 Colts B v Wellington College Won 8-0 Junior Colts A v Wellington College Won 6-1Junior Colts B v Wellington College Won 8-0

The School 1st XI v The Oratory School, Away, Won 4-1

In driving rain and conditions that were more suited to Harrow football than soccer, the 1st XI battled hard against a physical Oratory team. After 30 minutes, some great combination play between W. Swan, Lyon’s, and J. Jordache, Moretons, resulted in sublime finish from C. Jordan, Bradbys. Harrow lost concentration and from the restart conceded a sloppy. The start of the second half saw Harrow take advantage of the driving wind and the downhill slope, capitalising with an O’Malley strike and an own goal in a five-minute spell. The 1st XI settled the tie with another Jordan finish between the on rushing keepers legs to go third in the league.

2nd XI v The Oratory School Draw 1-1 3rd XI v The Oratory School Won 4-14th XI v The Oratory School Cancelled5th XI v The Oratory School Cancelled6th XI v The Oratory School Cancelled7th XI v The Oratory School CancelledColts A v The Oratory School Draw 1-1 Colts B v The Oratory School CancelledColts C v The Oratory School CancelledColts D v The Oratory School CancelledJunior Colts A v The Oratory School Won 9-0 Junior Colts B v The Oratory School CancelledJunior Colts C v The Oratory School CancelledJunior Colts D v The Oratory School CancelledYearlings A v The Oratory School Won 6-1 Yearlings B v The Oratory School Won 4-0 Yearlings C v The Oratory School Won 6-0 Yearlings D v The Oratory School Won 4-0

FOUNDER’S DAY HARROW FOOTBALL

BradbysOld Boys 5 – The House 2

Old Boys: O. Bentsen 20103, R. Flemming 20063, M. Freeman 20103, H. Holden 20063, M. Jones 20093, N. Kingsley 19703, O. Leeming 20003, A. Love 20063, J. Lowe 20063, C. McHardy 20013, G. Morrison 20063, A. Parr 20063, G. Poulston 20063, J. Stjernstrom 20013, Jamie Bingham Eton

The House: L. Clarke, J. Gallagher, T. Adebayo, M. Asir, L. Tanner, J. Cole, M. Hulse, C. Kent, H. Bright Holmes Stanton Ife, E. Bayne, S. Helly D’Angelin, H. Markham, A. Nevile, A. Taylor, F. Wilkins

ElmfieldOld Boys 4 – The House 2 Golden base

The Old Boys: H.Q. Gibbons 20103, W.T.W. Playne 20103, B. Severin 20103, P.F. Anson 20093, G.H. Blount 20093, F.H. Bullen 20093, G.P.B. Fox 20093, J.W.K. Wright 20093, M.O.H. Faure 20083, H.L. Quinson 20083, F.C.H. Reynard 20083, H.M. Skinner 20083, A.J. Lawrence 20063, C.M. Marlow-Thomas 20063, E.M. Quinson 20063, S.G. Denison-Smith 19813

The House: F.G. Denison-Smith, L.J.U. Findlay, J.B.R. Hamilton-Ely, T.H. Leung, B.P.D. Maxwell, R.P.W. Mountain, G.E.H. Salvin, E.B.J. Taylor, O.R.L. Wilson, O.A.H. Atkinson, A.A. Cleverly, A.H. Fletcher, S.H.A.J. Hanson, J.C. Matti, J.E. Ovia, G.F.K Trotter, H.A.S. Weatherby

The Head Master’sThe Old Boys 5 – The House 1

The Old Boys: A.H. Elsey 20063, A.M. Hanif 20063, R.A. Clack 20063, P.M.O. Wood 20053, J.P.E. Ayoub, W. Gasson, A.C.C. Lo, J.C.F. Lo, L.G. Miller, J.J.A. Simoes.

The House: R.P. Malhame, T.M.J. Seely, JM Chapman, HMA Chisenhale-Marsh, JR Habsburg, NEL Rowe, MW Shasha, AGN Sutherland, AHM Temple, HA Tokuma, HDE Wickham.

The School 1st XI v The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Away, Won 5-4

Harrow played extremely well to beat Habs 5-4 away from home and record their third win of the season.

Results2nd XI v The Haberdashers' Aske's Lost 0-23rd XI v The Haberdashers' Aske's Lost 1-8Junior Colts A v The Haberdashers' Aske's Lost 0-2 Junior Colts B v The Haberdashers' Aske's Lost 0-11Yearlings A v Haberdashers' Aske's School Lost 0-1Yearlings B v Haberdashers' Aske's School Lost 0-6

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MoretonsOld Boys 5 – The House 6

Old Moretonians: J.M. Farrar-Bell 20043, J.V.A. Evans 20073, O.C. Hald 20073, A.H. Worth 20073, G.P. Lundy 20093. Also attended: R.G. Evans 19703, D.T. Fleming 20093, R.G. White 20093, N.R. Kuznetsov, 20133

The House: T.E.E. Colehan, H.R. Dovey, D.J. Hare, C.W.A. Umbers, G. Arnsberg, J.E. Awdry, T.A.R. Leitao, A.O.L. Osobase, G.F. Reid

NewlandsOld Boys 6 – The House 4

Old Newlanders: L.F. Knight 20022, S.M. Boushehri 20022, J.Q. Henriques 20073, F.B. Barr 20073, O.G.J. Watkins 20093, W.J. Burrell 20073, H.N. O’Hara 20093, T.M. Crawford 20093, M.B. Barr 20083, G.M. Slipenchuk 20093, F.C.M. Tritton 20093, A.R.G. Turner 20083, C.H.L. Clarke 20083, F.J.S. Young 20083, B.M.J.T. Horgan 20103, J.T. Kennish 20103, F.F.C. Reding-Reuter 20103, A. Rambosson 20103, D. Bernardi 20103, J.I.A. French 20083, W.M. Metter 20083, O.R. James 20103, K.M. Hamilton 20093, R.J. Saper 20093, C.D.G. Gooch 20093, B.A. Edwards 20093

The House: E.B. Barr, D.H.S. Jenkins, S.M.N. Karim, O.J.L. Roberts, J.A. Herholdt, R.W. Jack, E. Bankes, P.C. Marshall-Lockyer, A. Vdovin, S.N.K. Dickson-Tetteh, J.M. Ford, E.S. Ho, L.A. Smith, R. Van Aeken, M.N. Camerea, H.W.T. Revill

The KnollOld Boys 3 – The House 4

The Old Boys: G Hurley 19782, B.J. Unwin 19692, P. Kunplin 20023, D.E.A. Abu 20093, F.C.E. Niven 20093, G.C.Heilpern 20093, A.D. Post 20093, J.M. Royston-Bailey 20093

The House: A. Cui, H.C.C. Elsom, J. Hamzah Sendut, J. Hill, N. P. Lloyd Williams, G.F.M. Machado, Z.M. Musallam, H.M. Niven, S.J. Riddell-Webster, O.J.T. Seex, M.K.H. Siu, L. Vermeir, J.Z.H. Wang, A.J Wardlaw

The ParkOld Boys 2 – The Park 8

Old Parkites: H. Foord 20103, S. Patrick 20103, H. St.John 20103, H. Power 20073, A. Hignett 20083, H. Young 20103, R. Benson 20003, R. Neave 20003, F. von Bernowitz 20032, M. Ansell 19843, M. Hignett 19762. Also in attendance were Rob Collins RGC, former House Master and JEP father of Huw.

The House: H. Mingay, A. Edwards, J. Harkness, L. Dale, T. Hignett, P. Monteiro de Barros, F. Orchard, T. Stevenson, G. Younger, E. Bergamo Andreis, S. Mohinani, O. Tippett

West AcreOld Boys 0 – The House 5

Old West Acrians: N. Levine 20093, A.K. Israni 20093, J.S. Kwong 20083, K.Y. Yeoh 20113, P.L. Hedley 20083, O.J. Scampton 20083, H.J.A. Smith 20083, W.R.P. Howes 20053

The House: K.E. Bassey, J.M. Bird, S.A. Brown, O.W. Gardiner, R. Hughes, G.A.P. Malcolm, V.J.L. Paul, H.C. Riches, R.A. Taylor, K.Z. Yeoh, D.H. Anadkat, F.G. Ashe, F.B. Bartlett, F.G. Eccles-Williams, D.A. Edevbie, L.S. Kendall, C.Y. Law, C.H. Lee, D.B. Perkoff, N.A. Sheaf, F.W. Trimbos, S.C. Varma.

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West Acre also had a large group of leavers from 1977 back to visit the House and watch the match. Steve Radford (1977-2) died last year and his friends donated the Steve Radford Memorial Trophy to be presented to the Founder’s Day Man of the Match. Susie (his widow), Max and Angus Radford watched the match and then presented the trophy to Giles Malcolm, the Man of the Match.

Lyon’sThe Old Boys 3 – 3 The House

Old Lions: J.R Chia-Croft 20103, O.W.R Evans 20103, H.W.A Robyns 20103, T.A Seriki 20133, Z.O.E Adebayo-Oke 20103, M.J Rushton 20103, F.T Gaba 20113, J.L.C Figg 20103, C.R.L Martine 20103, W.P Ogden 20103, J.A.G Pinchess 20113, O.Nn Mirza 20123, C.T.M Chritchley 20103, V Wiesner 20123, J.P.D McCooke 20123

The House: P. Fricker, R. Craig, F. Innes, S. Chritchley, G. Robinson, G. Gould, R. Sliwinski, A. Rushton, K. Baoku, J. Oelhafen, W. Grinstead, A. Melph

DruriesOld Boys 6 - The House 3

Old Drurians: R.A.R Whitrow 20093, Hon. G.E.C.D Cadogan 20093, S.Z.L Taylor 20093, A.L Meyer 20093, A.R.J Graham 20033, E.F Voelker 20053, H.F.S Horton 20093, S.G Hardy 20083, A.S.A. Calindi, T.L.R. Tapp

The House: J.R. Meyer, W.E.M.Bryant, C.M.A. Biddle, S.H. Liebowitz, H.E.J. Laing, N.W. Casely-Hayford, T.T.U. Cheong, R.M. Cuff, Viscount Emlyn, M.G. Menaged, H.R. Newall, A.T. Aldous, C.A. Baird-Murray, O.Z. Gairard, G.J.W. Ing

RendallsOld Boys 6 - The House 4

Old Rendallians: W.R.Wieloch 19723, H.W.R Wieloch 20053, H.W Thomas 20013, C.M Dessain 20013, O.Oyetunji 20053, A.C Macrae 20053, A.W.M.S Griffin 20053, P.J Gilday 20053, A.R Peers 20073, O.B.A Cooke 20073, R.J.B Cooke 20073, J.A.S Powell 20073, A.S Rolland 20083, M.J Peers 20093, P.M Hart 20073, J.B Snow 20053

The House: G. Chichester, A. Ellis, D. Giercke, B. Goddard, T. Short, M. Shotbolt, D. Thomas, G. Whitcombe, L. Woudt, H. Collins, C. Dunn, T. Fola-Alade, M. Holden, T. Morishita, A. Norris

The GroveOld Boys 3 - The House 3

Old Grovites: J.G.Macpherson 19803, J.E. de Broe-Ferguson 19813, J.M.B. Hext 20053, B.S.D. Greenberg 20103; M.Y. Amanullah, H. Brounger, C.C. Getty, T.R. Moy, J.M.C. Bowie, A.C. Du Sautoy, A.A. Stroyan

The House: Bailey M.D.C., Cartwright A.J.S., Corbidge O.M.J., Horlick C.A.O., Mackay E.A.G., Prior-Palmer H.J.A., Wade A.F.N., Yoon Y.S., Curtis C.Y.B.

HARROW FOOTBALLThe School XI v J Wigley’s XI, 6 February, Won 4-1

The Wigley XI: B. Wigley, Elmfield 19893, B.A.V Woolley, Elmfield 19893, S.R.L Maydon, Moretons 19983, L. Gakic, Moretons 19983, H.R Howe, Moretons 19993, J.B.K Roditii, Moretons 19993, J. Wigley, Elmfield 19993, G.A.F Trypanis, The Knoll 19993, O.E de G Compton, Elmfield 19993, R.A.E Mann, Moretons 19993, M. Habib Rendalls 20033, J.E Armstrong, The Grove 20053

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The Outcasts XI v C.E.G. Bailey’s XI, 6 February, Lost 1-2

The Bailey XI: J.O Taylor 20023, The Head Master’s; S.F Lawrence 20053, The Head Master’s; A.J.E Nicholson, 20023, The Head Master’s; H. Farrar-Bell, 20023 Moretons; P. Kunplin, 20023 The Knoll,; P.L.S.I Ali-Noor, 20013 West Acre; D. P Gallagher 19772, The Head Master’s; J.A Gallagher 20033, Rendalls; C.H Gallagher 19723, The Head Master’s; A st J Henderson, 20023, The Head Master’s; and C. O’Halloran

INTER-HOUSE HARROW FOOTBALL

Yearlings Final, Newlands 2 v The Knoll 1, 7 February

pitch was in great condition with rain the night before so the School knew they were in for a good game. We started uphill and so right from the get go we were under a lot of pressure from the OHs. However, some very strong defensive shows from Ed Taylor, Elmfield, Robert Malhamé, The Head Master’s, and Alex Wade, The Grove, with impressive stopping of yards by the team meant they struggled to create many clear cut chances until a rare blunder by J. Hamilton-Ely, Elmfield, who kicked the ball in the air conceding yards meant Harry “Le Chief” Howe, put the OHs ahead. However shortly afterwards Hamilton-Ely redeemed himself with a superb base from far out, after leaping “like a gazelle”. The School were pleased with the first half which ended 1-1, being supposedly a two-base hill.

In the second half, the School took control of the game, showing their attacking strengths mostly playing in their half. Despite a good defensive show by the OHs, the continual pressure payed off and the School broke the deadlock with two quick bases from Henry Keith, The Knoll, and Theo Seely, The Head Master’s, to put Harrow 3-1 up. Henry Elsom, The Knoll, then finished of the game with a base to mark his comeback from injury. The game ended 4-1 with a school victory. Then men of the match were Keith for the School and Harry Howe for the Old Boys. It was a fine performance from the School against a strong OH team and the two wins now set up what should be a promising rest of the season.

The Outcasts had a very strong start despite going uphill against a well-organised OH team. The boys played good counter-attacking play and were rewarded with several attempts on base, eventually scoring one off the boot of Rory Hughes. Towards the end of the first half however, the OH players started to remember how to play effectively, rallied by their captain Mr Bailey and came away with a base. A momentary lapse in concentration by the School saw the OHs push a defender off the ball, to score, horror of horrors! a soccer base.

In the second half, the game became a much more gritty and hard-fought affair, with the School having a couple of chances but unable to capitalise due to the OHs’ stolid defence. Incidentally, the match saw the first turtle of the season being performed by the OHs, which quickly transformed the footer match into a game that resembled rugby, perhaps the Six Nations spirit being a little too strong to resist. Some great play was produced by the School, but the final score was 2-1 to the OHs. Well done to Mr Bailey’s XI for winning, and the Outcasts will look to win their next match against W. H. Seligman’s XI.