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.
For our part we cannot see how this is to be done, unless the whole system of elementary education is changed, and all the schools in the country are put on a dead level. We hope the ‘German’ methods are not going to find supporters amongst responsible politicians.
There is a very broad and easily climbed ladder already, by which any boy may gain as much as he desires, let us leave matters alone now for another decade or two before we change.
This restless age no sooner gets a scheme built up. Then there comes a desire to pull it all down and build something else before the scheme is fairly tried.”
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.