RUGNY'S NEW HEAD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 691, 16 December 1909, Page 8

RUGNY'S NEW HEAD.

—.— . . ■ .REV. A. 'A. DAVID TO SUCCEED DR. JAMES. ' A meeting of the Governing Body of Rugby School took place at the Westminster Palaco .Hotel on" November 4,' Sir Arthur Godlcy iu the chair, when, the ltev. A. A. David, headmaster of Clifton College, was appointed headmaster of Rugby School in the place of Dr. James, who has resigned.' Mr. David was educated at Exeter School and Queen's College, Oxford. Ho was nssis-,tant-master at Bradfield School, 1890 to 1802; assistant-master at Rugby, under Dr. Percival, 1892 to 1893; junior Bursar and subsequently Dean of Queen's. College, Oxford, 1898 to 1905; and headmaster of Clifton since 1905. He was ordained in. 1894, and was examining chaplain to the Bishop of Liverpool for a period of .three; years, Rugby's new head is 42 years of age, and is a'bachelor. "I have the warmest'affection for the old place," said the Eev. A. A. David at Clifton, in discussing :his appointment to Rugby. The hews camo to him with a bundle of. congratulatory telegrams which "had been accumulating whilst he was taking riding exorcise. "I'shall leave Clifton .with mixed feelings," he added. One important scheme, carried through during Mr. David's association with the college has been the extension, of tho playing fields, and ho remarked that-the,Old Cliftonians had very nobly supported 'hirii' by raising a fund, which now amounts to about to purchase 48 acres of: ground. . An enlargement of the school chapel has also been started. " "Will, you say something upon educational methods?" he was asked. .'"I still look to the classical system as quite the best," he replied, "but I have.learned to more and moro realise tho modem is a very good second best, and I think that the classical learning might be in . certain ways improved. Tho grind of learning grammar should bo rc--1 duped, and more attention paid to translation."