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The Whitgiftiatz records that the following Old Whitgiftians have burst into print during the past year: K. H. Jacksbn (1920-28), Professor of Celtic Languages and Literature at Edinburgh University : Language and History in Early Britain.

Colin Mudie (1936-40), in collaboration with Patrick Ellam: Sopranino, the record of a journey across the Atlantic in a twenty-foot sailing boat. (Rupert Hart-Davis.) W. D. Hussey (1926-28, and present master at the School): Discovery, Expansion and Empire. (Cambridge.)