The annual First Form public speaking competition took place today, and Ms Smith writes:
"We are grateful to Cathy Boobbyer who judged this year's speeches. Eight courageous finalists spoke on topics as various as tropical animals, Syrian refugees, robots, the dangers of gaming, and the importance of failure.
There were four winners: 4th place went to Peter Taylor with his brave speech about Anxiety. In joint 2nd place were Guy Fitzgibbon and Tom Casey. Guy made an arresting address about robot invasions, and Tom Casey spoke about forms of discrimination in our world.
First place went to Emma Hinde for her engaging, carefully constructed speech about artificial intelligence (AI). She certainly made us all think. Something robots could be doing very soon... "
The latest edition of the Library magazine, The Submarine, is out, and it is a special one, since our Librarian, Mr McConville, moves to pastures new next month. His creation and editing of this excellent magazine has been one of the highlights of his time here, especially his elegant and amusing editorials. Read it via Issuu below (click on the arrows to navigate, and again to zoom in).
The edition includes 'A Russian Christmas' by Anastasia Danilova, a review of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy by Nevin McCone, another by Catherine Butt of Lauren Gruff's Fates and Furies, an account of Olive Mooney's recent launch of her book The Curse of Helbizia in the BSR by Avi Johnston, a short story by Daisy McKeever, a version of Isabelle Townshend's TY House Speech on 9/11, another session of 'What's Reading Me', and the major part of the production, the completion of John Somerville-Large's series of articles on the architectural development of the College (including, of course, the Library itself, which he designed).
Congratulations to Douglas Boyd Crotty, winner of this year's Senior English Prize, for his coherent and well-argued essay on the refugee crisis. Distinctions and book tokens for the best performers in Forms go to Callum Pery-Knox-Gore (VI), Richard Gao (V), James O'Connor (IV) and Casper v Schulenberg (IV).
