to his quiet home. The kindness of
the visit was not slight; for the journey, to and fro, from difficulties
of transport, demanded two days. We have the more reason to be grateful
for his willing sacrifice of time, because, in view of the interval since
the last confirmation and of the long sojourn in Wales before us, we
should otherwise have suffered a kind of mitigated excommunication.

June 29th and 30th were the days of the "Old Boys' Match," the annual
reunion of the Past and Present School. There seemed no reason why
absence from our native soil should sever our ties with the Past. Quite
the contrary. _Ubi Caesar ibi patria_, thought our Old Boys, who,
indeed, never before felt so glad to claim their heritage in the fortunes
of Uppingham. The game, which was like other games of cricket, and need
not be described, was played on the Gogerddan field, where the
Headmaster, in lieu of his customary supper, not practicable at Borth,
gave a luncheon each day. On the first day, as the company rose from
table, a signal was given to the school to draw up to the tent, outside
which the guests were standing. They formed a kind of hollow square to
see what would happen, and an old Uppinghamian (Mr. R. L. Nettleship,
Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford) came forward and presented an "Address
from the Old Boys at Oxford, to the Headmaster and Masters of Uppingham
School." He noticed briefly the circumstances under which it had been
drawn up, explaining why (through lack of time to concert matters with
the sister university) it had come from Oxford only, and added that they
hoped shortly to give something more substantial than parchment. "What
they could offer was a slight thing, it was true, yet one which their old
Headmaster and his coadjutors would not think valueless." He proceeded
to read the address, which ran thus:

"We, the undersigned old members of Uppingham School, now resident at
Oxford, write to express our deep sympathy with the Headmaster and
Masters of Uppingham School in the great difficulties with which they
have lately had to contend. Feeling as we do, that though we have
left the school, we still, in the truest sense, belong to it, we can
but testify our gratitude to those whose courage and skill have
carried it safely through such a crisis, and converted a great
misfortune into a proof that it is strong enough to defy accidents.
Our confidence in the Headmaster is, as alwa