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Contents. Editorial School Notes H.R.H. The Duke of York's Camp . Football Cricket Season Prize Day O.T.C. Notes O.V. News Birth The Oxford Letter Cambridge Letter Debating Society Lecture Society Shooting Swimming Notes Chess Notes Renuntiatio New Year's Day ... Shakespeare on " Rugger " The Elusive Muse School Officers Valete Salvete School Calendar The Library King's Scholarship Examination Correspondence Addenda to O.V. News Contemporaries
DECEMBER, 1924.
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editorial. This Editorial is to engage in the two tasks which are perhaps more dear to the human heart than any others; certainly, when together, they form an almost irresistible combination. They are, firstly, the administering of a pat on the back to one's self; secondly, the reproof of others in tones of warm moral indignation, coupled with an exhortation to do better in future. The intelligent reader has by now, of course, guessed how the former weakness is here to be indulged. No Editorial hand could conquer its itch to reach up and warmly slap the Editorial back (a difficult proceeding, you think? But you are forgetting that Editors are not like other mortals) on the exceptional success attained by this column at its first attempt to fill the rfile of prophet. This adventurous step was taken in the July number. With a flourish of trumpets the Editorial announced to the world that the flooding of our fields was in truth a blessing in disguise; that, with the practical abolition of the opportunity to play, the opportunity to work was multiplied a hundredfold. And how was this prophecy justified? How was this bright gleam of hope darting over the murky waters of the flooded Severn shown to be lit by the lamp of truth? By results in the Certificate Examinations, the like of which can only be found by one who buries himself in the records of the past, the reputation of the Editor as