ST. ANDREW'S COLLEGE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18571, 22 December 1925, Page 17

ST. ANDREW'S COLLEGE.

CONCERT AND DISPLAY. 'l'*p sixth unnual display of the pupils of St. Andrew's College, given in tho Caledonian HjII last night,.showed what varied and interesting subject?,, many of them completely outside the. ordinary school curriculum, the boys tire, laught. There was singingi Pipe music, elocution, orchestral music, aTid most excellent exhibitions of gymnastics and exercises. St. Andrew's is one of the very few schools which specialises in gymnastics, and it has broug-Jbt the work to a very high standard. Free exercises, dumbhell drill, vaulting, parallel-bar work, and pyramid-building were carried through, every boy being perfectly in tinio and perfectly ttaincd. If this form of physical training hat- anything to do. with the fine physique of tho youngsters, tho instructor, Mr Spencer Green, deserves tho thanks of every parent. Evon very small lads tumbled with foarlessness and confidence. Parents and 'friends filled nearly every scat in tho h'all, and each item was applauded jn a deserving measure. •

Tho programme wa» as follows:—Chorus, "Forty Years On" (Harrow song); orchestral, "A Twilight Idyll" (Schnecker), College Orchestra.; gymnastics, (a) free exercises, (b) dumbbells, junior sqruid; pipe selection, ''Tho Sweet Maid of Glcndarucl," College Pipe Band; recitation, "If" (Kipling), A. Mac Gibbon; chorus, "Floating" (T. Y. Steward), junior singing class; piano solo, "Preludo in C sharp minor" (Rachmaninoff), I). G. Kcid; oratorical, "Selections from (jhatepoare," O. T. Harris, J. H. March, It. Simpson, G. A. Nutt; gymnastics, (a) corrective exercises, interm«dia,to eqttad, (b) tumbliug, junior squad; orchestral, "Gavotte des Baiters" (F. Popy), College Orchestra; pipe solection, "Scotland, tho Bravo," Collego Pipe Band; Shakespearean se'eno from "Julius Ctesar" (the Quarrel Scene), D. G. Kejd and J. A. Khand; flute solo, "Graceful Dance" (John LemmomS), It. W. Boulton; choruses, (a) "Wliero the Bee Sucks" (F. Arne), senior singing class, (b) "Canadian Boat Song" (arr. by K. A. Dicks), (c) "lioch Lomond," Gle 0 Club; gymnastic, (a) ground exercises (senior aquad), (b) wand exercises (intermediate squad), (c) vaulting horso (sonior eqttad), (d) parallel bars (gymnastic eight, (e) pyramids (hoarders); orchestral, "From the Highlands" (O. Langey), College Orchestra; students' rong, "Gaudeamus," senior school.