CHRIST'S COLLEGE.

Press, Volume XLVIL, Issue 7738, 18 December 1890, Page 6

CHRIST'S COLLEGE.

OOItMKMOB_IIOS SAT. t Jommemoration Day In coi-nefetlon with fiiriet'a College Giaunrsar School celebrated presentation *f prizes took place in the l_.Bp.rn. There was ah™ ot parents and friends a_ord»bip the Bishop of Chitetchuren, Warden of the School, presided, and on She platform were members of the governing body and the masters of the school. £T_a Lobdship, addressing those preeent, said he held the position of a Bishop, of which no man dared to be proud, one snore full of great responsibility than it tvas of honor;, but he held another of lesser responsibility, and of rwhich he might venture to feel proud. It was the wardenship of Christ s College. iApplause.) He was almost the youngest jnember of that Society-scarce six months -old—and yet, as the youngest boy in the achool, he had at heart the interest of the institution as much perhaps as anyone. He could hardly tell them how great a Measure it was to him, on coming to the iblouy, to find such a school in full woric There might be such schools and colleges in full work in Australia, but there was bone that bore such a deep impress ot flnftHgh character as that College to which .tbey had the honor to belong, (Applause.) It was a pleasure for an old man, for any man, to belong to a College of that kind, for schools were always young. They stover grew old, and were like theChrlstian Church itself. He suspected that it was .through his close connection with the College that the late Warden had in some measure never grown old, and if they £card next year that he had entered for the Old Boys' Race they would hardly be TOKttised. (Laughter and applause.) The College life of its youths, ever coming in, aver going out, tended to keep men reung, full of life and vigor. Hence it was he felt the greatest pleasure in holding that position tbat night. He would aonfess to some neglect since he came to the colony. He had wandered from one and of the province to the other, and had Sad far too little time in Christchurch. He felt he had never seen the football field or seen the College win its cricket matches. He hoped the country would ados be weary pf him, and thus enable him to stop at home and see more of tbe College life such as he longed -to. do. (Applause.) There were some athools in England that lived entirely on she nast and oa the great names of those fumed out. They (Christ's College) were too young for that. There were no very Ejat names on the College calendar, sirs was a history of to-day and tofteorrow. They had to make the College a lame and glory in the earth, God helping dthaim, and he hoped the masters and ISutbs would strive to do it. The odendar was now to be published by the CpUege and it contained names pf those who would rise higher in the colony's tame, if not in the world's fame. He hoped ithe present head of the College— »•■ ...meant the head of the boys—would give some good account of himself in the 4ays that were coming. (Applause.) It ■—aaagrand thing for each boy toremeaaber that He had in himself no little part 4&~ the making of the school. Its honor, its future, not only rested with the governing body, but with the head down to the - youngest memberof it. Some of its honor : may might make in the sports, and what■•yer the College bad done In that respect Jie hoped it would do more In the coming jyear. Any boy in the school, though be f arightaptrise ia his form, could, add to the'honor and lustre of the school by ting a good account of himself in the Diversity, which he would no doubt «nter. Then came the professions. Speak*Bg of one profession, the greatest and meat responsible of all, he would say tbat never in the world's history Aid the Church ever stand in need of noble, well educated, and thoroughly earnest men than she did that day, and he hoped the very beat the colony could modape would give their services to Goo* applause,) Of course the Church was a «w profession, and men did not make Iheir fortunes in the colony, but tbey could do the noble work of training the /ottih pf the colony In the ways olGod, and it was more enterprising for men to become heroes in that work than to become mere professionals. Then there was the service of tbe country. They wanted good speakers rather than good talkers, and be trusted the College would be giving to the services of the Sy in general many good men, as it riven some already, who would' do work In the dlfScult times that were flonaogr upon them. (Applause.) There were on the tables a multitude of books to'be distributed that were witnesses of the good work that had been done during fiba past twelye months. He could not call them rewards. They were rather to Ijimpt the young to do their best that ,_raa In them; that the work in itself was Che tame reward, and would be impressed ■Km their characters, aud be there when 'the"—acks of the books were worn away. (Applause.) It was a pleasant evening Ik- the masters gathered around him, -'win. he was sure, had had a hard time of it SI would enjoy a well-needed rest, and he led they would enjoy it to tbe utterii| (Applause,) As for the boys, tbey .were* going out to refresh themselves. r'Some of them would be rivalling tha enterprise of the Christ's College boy. - #tto lhad, he was glad to say, reached ■pearly to the top of Mount Cook, and planted there the Hag of the College, He ~i*a» jproud to believe tbat the College Jtagdew there, or would do if it were not Siad round a stone—and that the honor tod. not been awarded to any other College, or to anyone coming from outside /the colony. He noped that someone from -die College would master that last feet, and reach the top of that of our mountains. He wished jfchem a merry Christmas and a happy New : ~rear when it came, and that they would «emo back ready for mighty deeds intellectually and physically. (Applause.) He .lehew that the masters were glad to be Mid of them, and would be equally glad to see them back again. (Applause.) ; . Tbe Rev, F, A, Habb, head master of «Jthe school, said it was usual on occasions of -;**» sort to refer to matters that had taken fldaee which would interest the parents, vine great event of the year had been the Incoming of the new Warden, and be took .that opportunity to offer in the name of ,-*be school, and in the name of the masters and the boys, a hearty welcome to his -XiOrdabip. (Applause.) He was glad to vs_d that his Lordship bad not forgotten •whose successor he was. He had shown

them how much hia heart was with Christ's College and its future. The new 1 • Warden had been kind enough to offer a ttize for the best boy in classics, and tbat, she'former Wardens prize for divinity ! ,would be known as Bishop Harper's prize. *Che speaker then referred to the change made in the manner of awarding the senior Somes' scholarships. The change would taring tbe College into closer relation with jUaeJlew Zealand University and dissipate £to feeling that it was antagonistic to the (university. The Somes' scholarships were ! Sen to boys belonging to the Church England only, and he drew the attention of wealthy and liberal men to the . -necessity for some open scholarships and _aore private prizes. He referred to the aommination, and said that really good 'work had been done, the writing throughmat the school being exceedingly good. 4 The Warden then presented the prizes, and as each boy returned be was warmly jpssgasded by his fellows. H -• Tfee following is the prize list:—• Bishop Harper's prize for Divinity—•, 'TO—lama Hi. \ -..- The Warden's prize for Gassixa—Roliea,/ton, Junior Somes Scholarships—Under six- ' teas, Wheeler; under fifteen, Boss; under •fourteen, McKellar; under thirteen, Izard. Tanered prices for English Literature— -JLH vision A, Ward, Williams ill, and . Rolleston; division B, Harper, Bell, and '-Worthy. *- Tanered prizes for Modern History— * Division A, Ward and Williams iL; divi"ftlphß,HarperL, Williams L, and Bell: Division C, Maijoribauks, Phillips ii, and -? v Cooper. .;" Caasaics—VL Form, classical, Williams • tU.; "modern, Flower. V. Form (upper), classical, Thorpe and Campbell (equal; ,_jßpj«r), modern, Davie: (lower), classical, l and Neave ll (equal); flower), Mtnodarn. Hargreaves. IV. Form, Walker ill. and Jameson (equal). lIL Form, .Charters. IL Form, Person, L Form, * Btaudea IL Mathematics—>VL Form, claselcaVßol- „ baton.; modem. Turae? |_ V. Form -.(tipper), classical, Aclaad L a (upper) modern, Carl; (lower), I (lower), modem, Ormoud. IV. Form, tWaSlaee.- lIL Form, Web Say. IL Form, TordU. L Form, Macbeth, *» Divinity—v", Form <usger), classical, VAdand L; (upper), modern, Davie; (lower), fgji*te|ral» w£#cn Gg£®S£ Bill. IV. Form, Wallasa. Hi, Form, £aj_ira i, XLHora, «__. JL ffe&a- Alnger. ©idba a mSS^

harper L; (lower), classical, Weston.L; flower), modern, Hoare, L IV. Form, Wallace. HL Form_Philllps v 11. Form, Brown I. L FoM, Blunden U. French—VL Form <upper)„ Nichols a.; flower), Flower. V. Form (upper) classical, HaHamore; (upper), modern, Olliver; (lower) classical, Weston, L; (lower) modern, Gardner. IT. Form, Marjottbanks. 111. Form, Singleton. H. Form (upper), Spence; (lower), Campbell U. L Form, Blunden 11. . ■ ~-j. _ German—VL Form, modern, Caw. V. Fofm (upper), modem, Denham; (lowei) modern, Hoare 11. Science—VL Form, modern, Turner L V, Form (upper), modern, Gardner; flower) modern, Noma. Drawing—Division L, Fryer. Division IL, Thorpe and Gardner (equal). __ Music—lV. and HL Forms, GilL XL and L Forms, Macbeth. Special notice was given of the following students who had not gained prizes, V. Form (upper) classical, Oldhain; (lower) modern, French and■„ Divinity. Norris; (upper) modern, Latin, Olliver. IV. Form, Divinity, Menzies. I. Fopn, Frenshand Latin, Newton iii; Divinity, Ivey. After the presentation the following programme was gone through most successfully by the boys :-Part song, 44 The Dawn of Day " (Reay); song," True till Death" (Gatty), Lingard; recitation, "The Knights" (Aristophanes), Watt, Cox I, and Rolleston; partsong, "Summer and Winter" (Tours);., song, "The Chorister" (SullivanK Seymour; violin solo, GUI; song, "If Doughty L>eeds (Sullivan), Pike; recitation, "Theßivals" (Sheridan), Perry, Williams ii, Cocks ii, and Orbell; part song, ** Hurrah for Merry England" (Berge); " Dulce Domum" and the College song. Mr A. Merton ably presided at the piano. The Tancb—d Prizes fob 189 L The following are tbe subjects for the Tanered English prize for 1891:—Upper School—A. (1) Adam Bede; (2) Early Poems of MiitOn ; (3) Rep. LycidAs ; essay, Milton's Life and Times. 8., Scott's Antiquary and Old Mortalityj essay, Life of Scott. Lower school—A, John Halifax Gentleman; B. Ballantyne's Young Furtraders. _, , . . Tancred's History, 1891—Upper school— A. (1) Ransome's Henry VH. to date (i.e., Modern England); (2) Gardiner's Puritan Resolution ; (3) esaaya (a), Colonisation of America and Australia, (ty The Two Pitts. B. (l)Rensom»'s Henry VH. to date; (2)' essay (a), Marlborough and his Wars, (b) History of tbe Slave Trade, Lower school —A. (1) Gardiners Whole Book; essays, Drake and the Sea Dogs, Wellington and Drake, Stephenson; (2) Gardiners, PartL