From the School Magazine Vol LIII ii, March 1961 No 171
Professor A E Jolliffe, after whom Jolliffe House was named, was a distinguished mathematician, having been an Open Scholar at Balliol.
Continue reading “Professor A E Jolliffe (1882-1891)”Jack Halliday (1923-33)
From The School Magazine Vol XXXVIII. i, December 1945 No 126
December 1945
We regret to report the death in an aircraft crash near Rochefort in France of Wing Commander Jack Halliday on his return home to be demobbed after service in India.
Continue reading “Jack Halliday (1923-33)”A H G Kerry (1896-1908)
From the School Magazine Vol XXXVIII. i, December 1945 No 126
December 1945
A H G Kerry (1896-1908), after whom Kerry House took his name, has retired from Eton where he has been House Master for many years.
Continue reading “A H G Kerry (1896-1908)”The Winter of 1946/7 part 1
April 1947 – Editorial
Lovers of statistics will probably find some subtle and abstruse connection between the date 1881, 1895 and 1947. These were all hard winters.
Collecting and Digging for Victory
From wartime magazine no 3
January 1942
Almost everyone seems to be busy collectinq something or other these days to help the war effort, and the members of the School have proved themselves no exception to the rule.
A Limerick by “Mayhunto”
March 1908
“There was a young fellow from Perth,
Who was born on the day of his birth.
He was married, they say,
On his wife’s wedding day,
And he died on his last day on earth.”
Was this the original limerick on this topic?
About Secondary Education
December 1922 – Editorial of the School Magazine
“Certain people are now demanding that all children shall have a ‘secondary’ education, and this, without considering the cost or the advantage [sic] to the nation.
The COS Old Boys’ Machine-Gun Platoon
July 1932
In the Old Boys’ section of the school magazine of July 1932 it is announced that the Old Boys have formed a Machine-Gun Platoon in conjunction with the Machine-Gun Company of the 4th Bn. Oxf. and Bucks Lt Infantry.
Genesis of the COSA
After considerable discussion among a number of Old Boys of COS it was decided to convene a meeting to discuss the possible formation of an association dedicated to former members of the School. Since the School amalgamated with Southfield School in the Sixties to form Oxford School, it has undergone many transformations until it now no longer is of particular personal interest to our Old Boys.
Continue reading “Genesis of the COSA”History of OHS
COSA Chairman Geoffrey Hart completed two Chapters of the History of the City of Oxford (High) School before his untimely death.
He began Chapter one by briefly outlining the beginnings of education for all children in Oxford.