'The Columban', April 2014

This Thursday sees the launch of our project of digitising historical copies of the school magazine, 'The Columban'. Here is another one, this time from before the Great War, in April 1914.

Reading this, one cannot help but think of Philip Larkin's great poem 'MCMXIV': 'Never such innocence again'. As the world is about to hurtle into the horrors of Flanders, notes in the school magazine include: 'Why should not Inter-Dormitory Tennis teams be formed?' and 'Two excellent sets of picture postcards, showing views of St Columba's College, have been produced, and may be obtained from the Matron, price sixpence a set.'