Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Wednesday 20 December 1922, page 8


SCHOOL SPEECH DAYS.

-' -GEELONG COLLEGE.

Lady Forster Presents Prizes.

t.I,LrOλG Tuesday - HIL inability I j mains to indisposition of lim 1 Excellency '

the Governor-General Lord Forster) to

be present meant a busy day for 1 lady I,

Loutet it Geelong yesterday when His Excellency distributed till will let nurses and house cup at tin. (in lone, College

speech day ' Before the break up SUITE lion, I at!. Forster, who was attend d bl upturn PiUIuvcis was receive I by the Council of the College III the. tliin_riiiin at the Mechanics Institute in his utility. to the boys, Lady Forster expresses I HIL Governor Gener in a deep regret and dm appointment at not being able to attend On his and her own behalf, he extended congratulations on the report of the year work is Indi showed that dee long, College was holding its own both in work and in sport with the other great schools with which it compete 1 in spite of its members being smaller than in any of its rivals Referring to the honour board which She had seen in the hall Lady lol

Bter said that she felt she could speak as a mother greatly blessed-the names of two Bono were inscribed on the honour rolls of two of the greatest public schools to those boys of Geelong College on the threshold of manhood she appeared that they should carry out with them into the. world the ideals put before them in their

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the sports prizes were handed over by Mr W W Hope president of the Old collegians Association Mr A N Harry viLopnncipal who is retiring. from the staff after 19 years micLLSsfuI service to take no a position in Tasmania It is presented by the chairman of the council (Mr Stanley B Calvert) with a special resolution expressing the council s apple tuition the esteem of the boys was re sailed 111 the presentation of a handsome silver hot-water kettle and stand and HIL gift of the Old Collegians association was a wallet of notes Lady Forster him fied with the Principal of the College!- Rev

F W Rolland) and Mrs. Holland and inspected the college and grounds

REPORT

A. headmaster s annual report is T

pose a necessary part of speech day but the real annual report of a school is not a thing that can fill a newspaper column 01 wears an audience It is a romance that would fascinate us if we could read it in folding, as it would, the change that has taken place In the life of even box, his gain or loss in physique, in imitative, in wisdom, 111 character

All in ordinal v litad linster can do is to record changes that are outward and MHibk the notable events of the year in that little world of school which often for Acts how little it is, and far more often

firms to realise its endless influence

I his years Report has to chronicle a great loss in the death of Mr Charles Shannon the chairman of the council ever since the Geelong College became a public school I am glad that his name is engraven deep on 1 « liege foundation stone for he is one of those who by their foresight laid the foundations of whatever future the college must have and to his long-continued labour of love coming gi ncrations will owe a debt as long as the school endures Only one man was thought of as his successor In friend, Mr Stanley Calvert who as hon secretary both of the council and Old Col

legions Association, had made the welfare of the school almost his chief aim in life He does not need to win the goodwill and affection of the animal, the master-. and the boys for they have long been his

the increase in numbers that marked the jubilee year has been maintained and the college has had 111 1923 a record number of scholars and perhaps you, as well wishers of the school may be glad to know that the enrolment of boarders for 1923. is already 111 excess of that of any pit tops year

are still leaves 11s the smallest of the great public schools of Victoria I hope MI In ay s shall be My Ideal is a school not great in numbers but great in the virility of its average boy 1 rent in its power of developing individuality, great in that uphill fighting indomitable team spirit that belongs peculiarly to a small school for ever matched against larger ones

I have to thank the staff the school 'or the manner in which they have carried the heavy les.eligibilities and for it they have done in addition to their ordinary

work in the interests of the boys I thank the prefects also for their loyalty and co-operation

There will be one change next year that calls for very special mention We are is j 011 know losing our vice-principal With out any seekingVif his, Mr Harry has been called to the beat classical mastership in Tasmania, and vic cough I use to him on the high honour that has been paid him, and wish him every success in a position where his conspicuous ability as a teacher of class

sires will have full scope But our son (.ral.ulntioiiH ire mmgW with regret for (his change means a loss of a master who for a period of years larger than the whole life of most of my present boys has given to the school a conscientious and loyal service that can seldom have been surpassed in the history of the college

A. c vi le exceptionally for until 111 lay mi, on our staff another trusted senior master who if his war service be included has

been equally lone a strength to the college and the council was not slow in deciding, that in Mr A H MicUoberti M 4 it

had the very man for the vacant vice I pnnciprlship Air MacRobertson n glad J to say, has accepted the appointment I

the senior Latin classes will be taken next year by Mr 41111 Tait MC, MA Dip 12 whose classical gifts will now find full opportunity, of exercise Mr Mac roberts will take over the senior English and a new master will relieve Mr list of the senior fr tub and Mr MacRobertson his classes in commercial principles.

We are still ruling additions to our buildings Mats last speech day a new sleep-out li is is a limit at Woman and this has made possible the formation of a ji mor house It has been a great and v either? for the younger boys to have a b ording school life of their own 11 with more ! table I say on vision and with hours of st city and sleep suited to herbage Additions to (the senior house hue and abled tin to provide more comfortable quar less for ("he domestic staff and Jar or kit

is and pantries 11 day new duty These improvements have greatly facilitated the work of the staff and perhaps have something, to do with the fact that we have no domestic problems at the college But far more important than any budding has been the appointment of Miss Addison its action of the college Probably many mt thors 1 on know from letters home some

time of Miss Addison 8 personality, but they can hardly realise, as Mrs Holland and Iib with that scrupulous care what self saw thorne, silence by day and if need I 1 j night and with wind humour and in sight also acts as to the health and the energetic d demands of our large family He-, jam tin new sanitorium very nearly proved 1 white elephant but it has just

lie I its existence by checking the spread of

hiccups. which came to us just at a.

man more time

I should be to (offer lights the boys will passed the intermediate and leaving a -munitions and especially I JJ Doyle, 1111 I It II reinsman A J A third, and 4 Itofliv fit the Minister 111 the leaving

li tour examin unions

was the lot ii prevent any outstanding tennis 111 the suitor 1 losses but the work of the the of his improved in quality and we shall have a liver number, I think, passing the public e animation, of 1922 than we have had for some years

in milk, to Hu ttiUluor life of the college 111 him but said he was 111 tin held in every branch of sport and though their returns have not seen him till I have put up s in vain tim pi 1 for manies and given the opponents main unMuus moments he called this was the fastest and il=vtrc_t we have had for a long time and no one who saw it will soon forget the brilliant fight against the chairman n steamer the veil The 111 manner in which the valley has been iii] to compete at all 111 is Yet it was with the huge Melbourne s herd', is most e Mt 101 din u v feature of Imbil s boil spoil I In fact that we have never ample playing, fields it our very doors is., certainly something to do with that but another reason 1 line!, lies in the pluck of the boys themselves, and all the sportsmanlike spirit in which they have fought out every contest

The most important function of the year was the iTirmemorition service at which His i attended the Earl of Stradbroke and veiled Hit I can I facts on which are of gravel then inn s of the Old Collegians who took part in the (mr w III the

honour roll in lodes in minds of those who give Ultu lives 'of their country

Many of its felt that we had never been present at 1 more impressive service The lil insufficent brass records are a memorial the time itself < 111 hardly distress They j wen in put only of the Old Collegians will no man in another ] it it is a fund to provide for the dilution at the college of the sons of those who fill Another is the election if 1 intentional wins in the new hospital'

Mary Left to the school four Old Boys and items will be acknowledged later The endowment at fund opened last year is growing and anyone at any time can contribute any sum to it and if it grows even slowly it will some day make our future from the finan j ii point of view quite secure, and enable us to do service for the community which is at present beyond our power

I I am sorry to record the death this year

of Dr Alec Timms, an old collegian, well known by every Abotonan boy of his dying

"Shako" Timms, the great Geelong footballer

I was amazed to discover, when I

a student in Edinburgh, that the sum mons j Scottish international Rugby player, per I Imps the most centre three quarters Scot

land pier had was no other line Shako

'Timms, who died-, on the ship of the world, and in very different kinds of font I hull, And claimed an outstanding position It, was no luck parliament, but with such big pictures and generosity did he HCIK til she needed his help) that the "fateful people of his district have erected rule

mon it in his honour

1 liking of the success in spite of old collegians) W V Mac mill in continues to boil milk, rested, till tennis premiership of Victoria was lion in a form competed strongly of old boys of the school, and 1

li at ki s is one of the pair who won the. doubles rlmiiipionsliiii of Australia

We have to congratulate "Mr Justice Leon on his being appointed deputy court judge of Y Victoria, and Ah I J Battye, B A , hh IS, on leaving a degree rarely given by the limb May of Melbourne, that of Doctor of Letters Coming to a younger generation we have to congratulate T Al Burne!, MR B S on securing the < sit and Beanpv Scholarships in Surgery obtain ing last ellis honours in medicine and other subjects, and coming second out of all the students of his year in the dais lists J J Tait secured his Ar b , T. T Mackay and A K Lee then M I) N K TeweJl Ins Al Se , T ]) lodgers at lined his II fee will hnnouiH A 1? Moreton his B A and J H Frbahns his B C L Some of our old boys are carrying on further professional studies in England and Scot and, and several are preparing for the al my and for the hills

This introduces a question that pet plews many parents, and is of great interest to me-the future occupation of their sons I am glad to say that the number of employees who have asked me to recommend applicants for positions is increasing, and many boys desiring a commercial course have found openings in Geelong At the begining of the year the middle school and senior school 1rs were asked what career, if any, they had in view, and were told the subjects necessary for their respective courses Flic time table by the self same i (icing labors of Mr Crichton, one senior sen nee master, was planned to suit the le quin ellis of every profession. the horse

had chosen

In addition to this as part of the lecture system of the school, a series of addresses was given by men who were authorities, in their own subjects The game to the senior school a clear idea of various pro- fessions, and at the end of the lectures were kind enough to answer the questions of hors who were specially interested, and to promise them further siding is needed To them and to the main other lecturers ii he spoke to the school during the year, I am very deeply grateful We live on tinned in various other ways to link up the school with the life of the community

that boys of the preparatory school Imp, under the charge of Air Nicolson, visited most of the leading industries of the town, and it is wonderful how much they have observed and remembered It was very good of the proprietors or managers of so

i factories to give this time and teach to our boys But I am not able to believe that the ordinary public school individual is drawing out siiuVicntly the energy and nullifies of our middle form boys It is sometimes thought that is boys are growing very rapidly at this age they have the less energy for mental de-elopement Subjects also have lost their novelty, and, of course their increasing difficult i demands more concentrated

(lord I do not think we should even if we could, level the hill difficulty to make a play was across it, but I feel that this would have met e he all for the lull if their own spirit of enterprise could be more fully enlisted in the climb aboard schools are trying with a varying measure of she

less to exchange the ordinary timetable of a fixed amount of work, called in as alignment," which a scholar contracts to do in a certain period each subject has a loom den of ted to it, with one or more mas less, specialists in that branch of knowledge,, in charge -V boy can go from one room to another as he likes and when he cannot understand some difficulty, was seek help from the master One advantage of this plan is that a boy who IN good at one subject can get that port of his assignment finished quickly, and it will have more time to spend at some other subject at which he is backward The great est objection to it is that the master s are almost crushed with the labour of making out had checking (ho assignments

3 propose next a year to begin with the co-operation of the staff, something much less IPiolutionary-an occasional period when

the boys, with a master as adviser only, by w air undertake in their own unit some work, > suggested to them and approved by them of I have time to give son one illustration is

only of what is being done in this direction

and what might be done One of our

old boys who is nonsense, the 1 muire m p I Uganda has offered in annual prize for the

best essays upon a copy of Imperial inter j i I 1 ellon as the subject this year I Should India Hine self government I he value the 1 input The boys who was

tried for that CSMI competition are pr b able today the best informed people in (excelling on that particular question that I will take for the first if their lives an

interest in the yield as if India and perhaps

one of them may some day sale mil 1 Australian ( ahmet from milling i fatal

mistake in our relations with that country The boys found there w is- a real interest in 1 making up their own minds on the question

it issue, in condensing and it ranging their extensive material and in expressing it in the best 1 english at their command a The work for that estate was probably the first piece of independent 1 estar cb work on a large scale they had done This leads one to think that we have sufficient his not real ability in the school to undertake the writing of history Why should not our boys liner, ii i in which for us to ills is comparatively old be able to c, either from pioneers mile from early manu ser ruts and journals material for a len readable little book It would do our boys no harm to learn what their grandfathers endured in the early days and such work would increase their interest in history general]! and give Geelong bol s a greater love for their home town

you may be interested to know that in his estimate of the individual boy the teacher is getting a little help from science The patient study of the causes of mental obsessions and abnormally action, has proved that PI can in normal life the instincts that he bene till the IPI 1 of conscious thought will play a larger part than he had imagined Ps} clio analysis has had many of cr enthusiastic ii lends but it has taught masters a more patient charity and some times even to them is due in dealing with the missen of per tonality

Scientific methods have been introduced also into the testing of general intelligence After thousands of experiments, educationalists have arrived at what they consider the standards to which normal children

should attain at any particular age A on can imagine how carefully the tests have had to be tested and how wide must be the l ings of questions to cover the various kinds of mental ability shown by different children But the tests have been becoming Ten by year more reliable, and I propose to live the best system of such tests next year when judging the ability of new boys One defect of the tests is that they do not reveal the presence or the absence of perseverance, the will to succeed, and again one does not know whether the person examined is doing his best at the time These things can only be learnt by the usual slower methods of the classroom

The Preparatory School descries^n paragraph to itself Its boys though they intel as part of the whole college for

players ci cry morning have a distinct and vigorous life of their own they have their " own timetable with short periods, their own excellent journal, their own lives, their own house matches, and even then own terminal picnics, all of them speaking

of the wonderful interest of the teaching Miss in then charges Pal salts are begin i ning to lose the old idea that children

need less skilful teaching when they are 1 young and to recognise that in the years

between sis and li u hors sense of light i and wrong is being for met his attitude t towards leaning being determined, and I his constitution being built up or damaged i They are therefore, demanding the most ) sympathetic teaching, for boys of Hut age, ; and

the healthiest prisonment for stud! p in the way of airy classrooms and ample 1 pfennig fields Our Preparatory School is an answer to that demand, and the pint chase and levelling of a large area this

year for the especial use of its head has made the answer is complete . t

And now I come to the pleasant duty of

thanking main people for many gifts to the school Xliiec beautiful boats have I been added to our large like, a racing ' eight given by His Merulana and his

sons and two single sculls given by Mrs I Ronnldson We have received files gifts

of books for the libraries, from Dr Roland <

Wettenhall Air v A W Hooper, Mr J Calvert Mr A Shannon, Mr Howard i Sloane and from anonymous donors pie I lines from Miss Shannon, Miss McFarland Band Air Skene's trees for the grounds from Mr Alex Gunn Numerous prizes and trophies have been taken the lead, and

J sincerely thank the donors t

Mr Walter Alacpliei you the president in < 1921 of the Old College inst Association, him given a boarding, bursary of 250 a , year for five years and Dr W Hope, s our present president, has offered another 1 equally valuable bursary for two years

These splendid investments have made it possible for several promising country boys to have the privilege of a secondary reduce

the

In conclusion on behalf Mrs Rolland Had myself, may I say how much we have appreciated the way that Old Collegians of in my different tenants made we found time to come back to the old school and intro-(luce themselves to us and give us even encouraging it in then power On behalf of the whole stuff I -had kill c to thank the permits of the boys for mitty most n i generous letters of appreciation Janet I held ministers by the score in England, and

they all was to me solemnly of the parent,

but my fears have been strangely day appointed Any criticisms that have been others I have been given in the kindliest spirit and have often proved valuable

I should life not less, but more discussion with parents My greatest desire in life is to see an eye days growing into the kind of men God meant them to be, and time too, is your desire therefore we should work together in the closest co-operation

PRIZE LIST

form Honours V I -Dux of Colleges li T Matnulkii English and History R T Mac m liar IMKICK and Chemistry- II P Boyd

Form Izmir VIII O D Campbell 2 H 0 Much IT t A R 0 Collin "

form 11 per 1 -1 J R Paterson 2 W If W H oper N A A Young 4-11 I Boyes, T R J toto COW l "a 7 1 G H Hogg

lorrnVb -1 v C Thomas 2 W H Sloane A 1 b. Carter 4 A K Daniel 5 N G

Minns

! erin Ml 1 lit V -F J P Kaye 2 L. A. mine order J T G Rusden 4 J A McLennan F, W L Ingpen C V E. Wettenhall 7 D J0 Sullivan special prize C D Madden

from Ixintr V -1 K M McIntyre 2 F H Harry J M C McCalman 4 On Higgins 5 J A. Rolfe GDI Roadknight 7 6 McGraw 8 i it. Ingpen

Form Upper IV -1 T C M-Kim 2 I" O South 1 J T Murray T R E Hooper 5 T E Howard CAR roller 7 H A. Kauf

iona Middle IN -H D WcC Doyle, N F Peer 2 A L Bailey L J 0 Collier

form IXJWCI Fred P S Grimwade 2 J W v Ralla 11 special prize 11 Louis

Form III C lately. 2 D Higgins J,

G M Cochrane

Form H -J Pomeroy form I-D Hay

Special Prize -Essays C Ramsay and H R Fidge Junior Bible (? Mcintyre Hoard"!. Scripture-T b D Scott Drraing (seniors I Taylor Commercial PrizesSenior I P Wilson Tailor T C Rusden Muller O Atkins C-rpenti.-Senior T G Sloane Junior K M Campbell aeronauticsSenior TO Young junior J O Tait. Dane li g-R. li Ronol Ison Pegasus Prizes A Maguire Debating Society-fccnior A J H Gray junior I) M Dickson Dr Gus Kearney Memorial races C Rusden TI e on and Roy follow Horsham- v 1 Rei tour The Dr Barker 1 raised it T Macmillan.

Speciality sorts Prices Cricket Prize for General Professors! V L Rentoul Tennis Senior tramplonftliip F G Creed es junior champion skip W T Ingpen ,