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TERM 3
AUGUST J. SEPTEMBER J. J.
JULY
DECEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
Fri. 17th: Exams end. "It feels so good when you stop."
minton championships. David Thompson won the Southland intermediate ski championships at Coro­ net Peak.
Mon. 12th: School recommences: some people seem badly in need of another holiday. However, the main obstacles of the year are yet to come. "The school that they have set up may properly be called the Satanic School."-Robert Southey.
White House and 3D win the house and form competitions. Some lucky Sixth Formers escape to Dunedin for the day to tour Teachers' College and the University. "'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at a university: but the education is a Iittle too pedantic for a gentleman."-Wm. Con­ greve.
Mon. 19th: "Because of overdue books, these forms have forfeited their library periods this week." The long arm of the Library strikes.
Tues. 20th: Third and Fourth Formers attend the rst 2e rformance of the Combined Drama Group's "Our Town ". Perhaps they did laugh in the wrong places but the show must go on. The evening performance met with great approval.
Wed. 21st: The nal showing of the play con rms the success of the venture. The inter-house sports con­ clude with White winning, Blue second, School third, and Red fourth.
Wed. 28th: Clubs resume; Mr. Waterson has half the School in his room wanting to change clubs. "No, Chaplin, you may not form a surf-riders' club."
Thurs. 29th: Entries in the speech competitions, aug­ mented by some gentle coercion, are excellent, and much latent talent revealed in consequence. Results: Senior, A. Derbie and A. Graham; Fourth Forms, R. A. Dynes; Third Forms, Waldron.
Elder holds a dancing exhibition on the bike-shed roof, much to the amusement of the Rector and 3A. Mr. Waugh, of the Cancer Society, talks on cancer and smoking.
Vied. 22nd: The School teams visit Otago Boys' High.
The Ist XV lose for the rst time in 14 years, but the 2nds win 6-0. Hockey and soccer are both lost, 6-0 and 7-2. 1st basketball team wins 45-18. Mr. Fitzgerald gives back the Upper 6th chemistry re­ sults. Morgan nds he has lost to Wallis, 4%-2%. Mr. Fitzgerald has the nerve to appeal for new lab. equipment.
Wed. 29th: The "mating dance" is held, to help boys nd partners for the ball. "The early bird gets the worm."
Mon. 4th: School teams visit Waitaki. 1st XV. 2nd XV and the debating team all lose. "0 the dis race of it! The scandal. the incredible come-down! '-Max Beerbohm.
Fri. 8th: The debating team beat James Hargest; School closes for a well-ear ed mid-term break. Over the week-end, the lsts lose their rst club match.
Tues. 12th: James Hargest School ball is held, and seems to be taken over by Boys' High. "If you can't get what you want, better damn well settle for what you can get."-G. B. Shaw.
Fri. 22nd: McKenzie tells the world at large: "I don't want to have anything to do with your magazine." Girls' High ball is held in the evening. The theme is distinctly Oriental.
Wed. 27th: King's High teams visit; 1st XV loses 9-8, basketball loses 41-39, soccer 5-2. "Don't cheer, boys: the poor devils are dying."-Capt. W.. Philip.
Tues. 3rd: School junior teams visit Central Southland College, meet with varied success. 3rd and 4th Forms attend N.Z.B.C. Symphony Orchestra con­ cert in the mo ing. They distinguished themselves by clapping in all the wrong places.
Fri. 5th: School ball, this time with a James Bond theme; the supper made this the ball of the year. "Many a heart is aching, if you could read them all; Many the hopes that · have vanished, after the ball."- Charles K. Harris.
Mon. 8th: Timaru Boys' High teams arrive. We win the rugby 17-6, the soccer is drawn 2-all.
Wed. 17th: Gore teams arrive; we win hockey, 2nd XV win 6-3.
Fri. 19th: School breaks up for the holidays: Queenstown is captive territory.
vVed. 24th: Hamilton Boys' High beat us 28-0; a brilliant exhibition of football. Over the August holidays these boys competed in sports events. Paul Adams reached the quarter- nals of the New Zealand Ama­ teur golf championships at Christchurch. M. Pascoe reached the semi- nals of the underl5 boys' bad-
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Fri. 6th: The annual Round the Park Races are held.
Mon. 10th: Exams begin for the Fifth and Sixth Forms.
"What, me worry?"-Alfred E. Neuman.
Fri. 14th: Exams end, leaving one with the feeling that all is not well with the world; outside exams are yet to come. "They spend their time looking for­ ward to the past."-John Osbo e.
Mon. 21st: U.E. and School Certificate exams begin, as do Bursaries and Scholarship exams.
Fri. 9th: School breaks up: the sta for a well-earned rest; the Sixth Form leave for University. "He was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him."-T. L. Peacock.
" Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end."- William Empson.