From THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE VoL. LI, iii JULY 1959 No. 166
School Notes
The problem still in our minds is that of the future of the School.
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From THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE VoL. LI, iii JULY 1959 No. 166
A sign of the steady building of new schools in Oxford is that we bid farewell to the Central Girls’ School in New Inn Hall Street.
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From THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE VOL XLVIII,iii JULY 1956 No 157
School Notes
The close of this term finishes the seventy-fifth year of the School’s active existence.
Continue reading “1956: The 75th Year”Thomas Hill Green by Lord Salter (1903)
From THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE VoL. LVIII, iii JULY 1966 No. 186
Facsimıle: there appears below a reprint of the articles by Lord Salter in O.H.S. MAGAZINE, Nos. 1 and 2 (June and July, 1903).
T. H. GREEN AND THE HIGH SCHOOL
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From THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE Vol LIV,ii April 1962 no 174
F. C. (Fred) Lay, Old Boy and then Headmaster, writes:
Although T. H. Green was recognised by his contemporaries as playing a large part in the founding of the School it is surprising that we have never reproduced in the Magazine a copy of either of the two portraits which are so well-known to all who have been here, nor has any account been given in these pages of what this remarkable man was like.
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From THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE VoL. LIV, ii APRIL 1962 No. 173
School Notes
An important chapter in the School’s history seemed to be nearing completion when one morning early this term the Headmaster formally announced at Assembly his intention of retiring in July.
Continue reading “F C Lay: The Headmaster’s Retirement”The Winter of 1963
From THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE VoL. LV, ii APRIL 1963 No. 177
School Notes
The weather, they say, is traditionally a topic of conversation for the English. Certainly this term it has frequently been under discussion.
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THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE Vol LV, iii JULY 1963 No 178
“The Six’, European Coal and Steel Community, Euratom, Council of Europe – new organizations for a New Europe; novel constructions rising high over the ruins of the Second World War, a war expressive of ancestral feuds and political bigotry allied to a nationalism (not Germany’s alone) that was both self-seeking and self-destroying.
Continue reading “Western Europe 1962”The Staff in 1958
Headmaster: F. C. Lay, B.Sc., M.A., Open Exhibitioner, Jesus College, Oxford, formerly Headmaster, Wellingborough Grammar School and Doncaster Grammar School.
Senior Master: R. W. Bodey, B.Sc., University College, London.
Continue reading “The Staff in 1958”The perfect rag
by Brian Bowler (1944-1951)
Submitted by his contemporary, Alan Trinder (1944-51)
It was traditional at the High School for the sixth form boys to indulge in ‘rags’. These were more or less harmless pranks, outside of the school rules but generally tolerated by the staff as an expression of youthful high spirits.
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