SCHOOL CERTIFICATES.
Upper Fifth Form.F. H. Tolputt, examination work; F. W. Walkling, good progress. Lower Fifth Form. E. B. Bowler, good progress. Upper Fourth Form.E. Butler and W. S. Spurgeon, good progress, L. C. Morgan, mapping. Lower Fourth Form.S. Beale, R. J. Harle, good progress; G. H. Stone, K. H. Whibley, mapping. Upper Third Form.R. S. Eagleton, good progress. Lower Third Form.P. Randall, good progress.
Football Challenge Cup.Town Team, Captain, W. Beale.
FOOTBALL.
The matches played since our last issue have resulted as follows :
20th Dec. Ryarsh Scouts. Away. Draw, 3-3.
24th Jan. Technical School. Home. Lost, 16-1.
7th Feb. St. Peter's Rovers. Home. Won, 3-0.
16th Feb. St. Michael's School. Away. Lost, 4-1.
7th Mar. North Ward. Home. Lost, 3-2.
21st Mar. Boxlev Scouts. Away. Won, 5-0.
The total results for the season are:-
Played 12, Won 3, Lost 7, Drawn 2, Goals for 39, Goals against 60
Caps have been awarded to the following : WT. Beale (Capt.), R. Ashby (Vice-Capt.), H. Bradford, S. Beale, L. Beale, L. Pearce, S. Reynolds, P. Hinton, H. Pearce.
W. BEALE (Capt.).
G. LYNN (Hon, Sec).
CHARACTER.
(While turning out a drawer recently the following notes were discovered on a few loose sheets from a note book. The writing bore no signature but 1 recognised at a glance the neat handwriting of Mr. McCabe.)
A man's character is generally formed in the first twenty years of his life. In some degree it is influenced by his associations and environment; in some degree perhaps by heredity ; in some degree by Education. But all these are only small influences compared with the measure that a man's own definite purpose, his own will, his own clear sight of right and wrong, his own physical, and especially his own moral courage have in the determination of what his character is to be.
Let a young man come finally to accept, and realize, and estimate at its true value the fact that his life is bound to be of his own making and that it can be, in spite of all doubters and objectors, just as great a life as any one's life. If he is determined enough about it, then he has formed for himself a character that will carry him far. Essentials of Character.
The first thing in his business life is probity; the first thing in his domestic life is sound affection ; the first thing in his spiritual life is an unswerving belief in the inspired World of God and in the value of his own soul.
Given such a man as this, so equipped, instil into him a desire to be of service to the world and there is nothing that may be denied him: he'll succeed.
" Take the first road to the right and do something " will be the quest of his Knighthood.
But let a young man grow up failing to believe in him-self, with a vague idea " that things will come out all right," with the confidence that friends will see to getting him a place, that relatives will support him in business, with the idea that he may make a lucky fortune by speculation, and with a disregard to the importance of his own manhood and the character engraven on that man's soul is but a smudging blur that means little or nothing.
He becomes a mediocre clerk or man of business and throughout his life may be heard complaining, " that he hasn't been given the proper chance," but he never gives the true reason.