KING EDWARD VII SCHOOL, SHEFFIELD

SPEECH DAY, 1944

PROGRAMME

ONE MINUTE SILENCE IN HONOUR OF THOSE OLD EDWARDIANS
WHO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE
SECOND GREAT WAR

THE LATIN SCHOOL. SONG

THE CHAIRMAN OF THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE
(Councillor J. H. BINGHAM, J.P.)

Solo and Chorus : " Come Away, Fellow Sailors " ..      Purcell
From " Dido and Aeneas "
(Soloists-R. H. JACKSON and T. W. TURNER)

THE HEADMASTER'S REPORT

LATIN ADDRESS OF WELCOME, SPOKEN BY D. E. CANTRELL,
HEAD PREFECT

Distribution of Prizes and Address by
Mr. M. L. JACKS, Director of the Department of Education,
Oxford University

Two Two-Part Songs­

(a) " Welcome thou, whose deeds conspire "     ..          Handel

(b) ," Live and Love "   Arne
(THE SCHOOL CHOIR)

Vote of Thanks to Mr. M. L. Jacks, proposed by
THE LORD MAYOR OF SHEFFIELD (Councillor S. H. Marshall, J.P.)
and seconded by
SIR SAMUEL OSBORN, J.P.

Song : " Spanish Ladies "          Traditional

GOD SAVE THE KING

Accompaniment and introductory music by the School Orchestra,
conducted by Mr. P. L. Baylis

TRANSLATION OF THE LATIN ADDRESS

AMONG all our visitors on these occasions, we have a specially warm
welcome for these who have not merely gained a great reputation
for themselves in public affairs, but have acquired distinction in
that art which on Speech Day has a particular importance for us,
the education and training of our youth. Mr. Maurice L. Jacks, a
scholar of great ability, is therefore doubly welcome : a widely known
and honoured personality, he was for some considerable time Head
Master of Mill Hill School with a high degree of distinction ; and
yet a further recommendation to us is the fact that he has now been
for seven years Director of the Department of Education in the
University of Oxford. We welcome you to-day, therefore, Mr. Jacks,
with more than ordinary pleasure, and with the hope that your words
will provide advice for parents, for their sons encouragement, and
to all give something of lasting value. We expect a great deal from
a man of your calibre, sir ; and perhaps we may be permitted to ask
that you smear on the edge of the cup of your more serious passages
(which we humbly pray will neither be too protracted nor too
unlively), the honeyed sweetness of a joke or witticism, so that, as
Lucretius has it, you may

"Beguile the lips of youth with mild deceit,
To pass the bitter, while they taste the sweet,"

and so that we receive from your words pleasure and amusement
as well as the benefits and advantages of your experience.