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No. 108.
VOL. IX.
Contents. Editorial School Notes Prize Day Lecture Society Debating Society The Duke of York's Camp King's Scholarship Examination Cricket Football Games Committee Meeting O.T.C. Notes Oxford Letter Cambridge Letter Two Election Types ... ... ... " That Strain Again " The Pageant of the Winds The Story of John Davis An Elegy Glastonbury The Log Mill , Section Competition Calendar School Officers Valete Salvete Chess Notes O.V. News O.V. Club Wordsworth on the Football Field Correspondence Chappel Memorial Reading Room—Subscriptions Contemporaries
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editorial. What is an Editorial? Judging from personal experience, it is certainly not the paragraph or paragraphs that, on the first page of every school magazine, appear with monotonous regularity under that head. For the component parts of all such " editorials " would seem to be as follows. First of all come a few general remarks on the writing of an editorial: the editor modestly deprecates his own ability to do so, and confesses that he has spent many a sleepless night since receiving the dismal news that this task has fallen to his lot; or perhaps he parodies with greater or less success the way on which others have written editorials. Secondly, he gives up this attempt at originality as being beyond his powers, utters one or two fatuous remarks about the weather or the doings of the First XI. or XV., and relapses into a silence that gives one the impression that the writer is left panting and exhausted in the editorial chair after his manful attempts to fill up the necessary quota of space. We must conclude that all editors are liars who head a paragraph with the word "Editorial," and, without filling up that paragraph with an editorial, first discuss and then evade doing so. For an editorial can palpably be neither the discussion of the writing of an editorial, nor the utterance of a few unenlightening commonplaces concerning