December 1932 - Southgate County School

Southgate County School Magazine 15
other sound rule, but more honoured in the breach than observance.)
Q. 9.—Supply the missing •word or phrase—
(a) A soft answer
Answer.—Is required for a soft question. (Is there more here
than meets the eye?)
(b) Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere
The missing word was variously given—Fooling, playing, flattery,
craving, deigning, bluffing, nothing. (Apparently the
modern youth thinks slightingly of love.)
Q. 10.—Expand the following abbreviations—
Q.E.D.—Queen Elizabeth's Drive; Quite easily done.
R.S.V.P.—Return answer with next post; Reserved solely
for publishers.
Q. 11.—Correct the following—
(a) As Milton says in his Love's Labour Lost, etc.
Answer.—Milton did no.t write L.L.L., he wrote "Love's Paradise
Lost." (Is this altogether a bad alternative title for Paradise
Lost?)
(b) The sun rises due east and sets due west in our latitude—
Answer.—The sun does not rise in our latitude. (Somewhat exaggerated,
perb:ips )
Q. 12.—First Aid—
(a) How would you stop bleeding from a cut artery ?
Answer.—Tie the artery in a simple knot. Another wrote : Plug
with cotton wool and cool with frequent cold-water poultices.
(b) What is the first thing to do when a person faints ?
It was curious to note that, to the boys, only girls faint; and to
the girls only boys are victims of this ailment, for invariably
the girls wrote: Give him air, and the boys, Give her air.
(c) What is an emetic?
Answers.-—A person who has fits. A person whose blood does not
congeal. Something that makes you sick.
SCRUTATOR.
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ATHLETIC SPORTS.
The annual Athletic Sports were held on the School ground
'on Thursday, 14th July, 1932.
The events, on the whole, were well contested, in spite of
the fact that in the case of a great many senior competitors
there can be little time devoted to training owing to the great
demands on their time at this time of the year. As the majority
of the long-distance events are concluded before Sports Day in
order to ease a heavy programme, it may be possible to devise
some arrangement next year to get more training for the events
on that day.
It was very gratifying to see such a good muster of members
of the Old Boys' and Old Girls' Associations taking part in the
Sports. The Old Boys, to mark their new lease of life, sent a
good "field" for the "Broomfield" Challenge Cup and a Relay
team to run against the School teams. J. G. Stubbs (1916-23),