The story of a successful town and gown project
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
Continue reading “Thomas Hill Green by Lord Salter (1903)”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.
Continue reading “Thomas Hill Green by F. C. Lay (1962)”This article dates from a school magazine in the 1920s and complements another one which speaks of the city wall
One would think that every Oxford High School boy knew the old bastion which still rears its somewhat stained shattered form on the south side of the school playground; yet, strange to say, we found that, when the fact that we were making enquiries about the bastion became generally known, the most frequent question that we were asked was , “What and where is the Bastion?”
Continue reading “The Old Bastion”The school’s WWII Memorial is located in the Oxford Community School (previously the Oxford School, previously to that Southfield School and now the Spires Academy).
Continue reading “The WW2 Memorial”Writer unknown:
I was fascinated by Nigel Molden’s story of the cigarette card with the COS insignia. I would guess that it dates from the time before the word “High” was added to the title, which I would place some time in the 1920s or early 30s.
Continue reading “Cigarette Cards”Article from the school magazine Vol LIII ii, March 1961 No 171. The photos are more recent.
Continue reading “School Curiosities “
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.
A note by Tony Phelps:
The Lawrence Brothers’ Memorial Fund financed the establishment at Jesus College Oxford of a Scholarship or Exhibition, which was first competed for in 1939. It was created in memory of three of the Lawrence brothers. Namely:
The numbers of Old Boys serving in the 1st World War – or the Great War as it was known then – was 580. In a school with a nominal intake of 120 pupils per annum that is a huge percentage:
Continue reading “WW1 Service Distinctions”From the unfinished School History by Geoffrey Hart
Chapter 2: The First 12 Years of Mr A W Cave’s headmastership
Résumés of the first two chapters of the History of the School, written by Geoffrey Hart, were published in Newsletters 4 and 6 just before he died. These two chapters cover the first years of our School until Mr Cave succeeded Mr Pollard as Headmaster..
Continue reading “Arthur Wilson Cave 1888-1900”