BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20915, 24 July 1933, Page 4

BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL.

REUNION OF OLI) BOYS AT DLNEDIN. The annua] reunion dinner of the Dunedin branch of the Christchurch High School Old Boys' Association was held last week, Dr. S. B. Strain presiding over a good attendance of members. "The School and Headmaster" was proposed by Mr T. J. L. JTantin, who said that loyalty to a great school was part of an Englishman's religion, just the same as loyalty to the Empire was another nart of his religion. Old boys were devoutly grateful to their old school and their old masters, and particularly to their old headmaster. It was a very great responsibility to be placed in the position of having to guide the destinies of a great school. A man hnd to be many-sided to do the position .justice. Christchurch Boys' High School was fortunate, and those who had passed through the old headmaster's hands must realise that "Balbus" (the late Mr C. ji. Bevan-Brown) had all the qualities. The influence of a man like that on the whole public life of New Zealand became a great thing. It did not end there, however, because their old boys carried on this tradition. The school had more than its share of good luck to have such a headmaster to carry out such an ideal, and the present headmaster (Mr G. J. Lancaster) had sot himself definitely to carry out that ideal—it might be called the Bevan-Brown tradition. The reply was in the hands of Mr H. Chapman, who spoke in humorous vein, and went on to say that two essentials that were required of a teacher were that he should be a lover of boys and should know boys. It did not matter how clever a man might be; if he had not sympathy with the boys he would never be a teacher. The toast of "Kindred Associations" was proposed by Mr W. F. Alexander, who spoke reminiscently of .he early development of the Timaru and Waitaki Boys' High Schools. The replies were made by Messrs W R. Brugh (Otago Boys' High School); 9' w - Kerens (Waitaki Boys' High School), and R. PI. Cabot (Timaru Boys High School). "School Athletics and Sports" was Pr f °/°i ed , by D u r ' C " S * Murray, who said that in these days of physical prowess, when sport became rather a fetish, a fetish overdone, it was refreshing to go back to school athletics.