From THE CITY OF OXFORD HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE VoL. LI, ii MARCH 1959 No. 165
School Notes
At the time of the issue of our December number we were on the edge of a crisis.
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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.
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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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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?”
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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).
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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.
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Article from the school magazine Vol LIII ii, March 1961 No 171. The photos are more recent.
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