THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE WAR.
("Clifton, remember," done into Greek.)
[To me EDITOR w TU. "Eramams..I
Sra—A short time ago I had occasion to visit my old school, Clifton College. In the familiar cloister, on the well-known notice-board, I saw posted up the list of the Cliftonians who had been killed and wounded in the present war, the former over fifty, the latter over seventy, in number. I wandered out into the schoolyard and stood for some time looking at the statue which commemorates the Cliftonians who fell in the South African struggle, and read again on the pedestal the lines by Sir Henry Newbolt upon his schoolfellows and mine who then gave their lives for their country. I thought how apt and true they were to all our schools to-day, and also how Greek in their beautiful, brief simplicity. They tang in my head, and by degrees shaped themselves into Greek. With Sir Henry Newbolt's leave, I give the English also
"Clifton, remember these thy EOM who fell Fighting tar over sea;
For they in a dark how remembered well Their warfare learned of thee;" Rem Grneee redditunt.
75n3e rkeyom TaY gra,/ 'Aapirs pipvmm ripen, vast Clit taax' 'natal/nit paprapieronri Vell OVVO're 7a.p warplea, Imp:, oat NOTE irnaitufdrres "Hawn, iv arocptpoit Adeo,"Apeees.
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