Talk:The Leys School

message: I've created an Old Leysian user box.  Those of you who attended The Leys can add it to your personal page by adding the following text to your page:
 cheers.
It looks like this ->
--Zoso Jade 20:41, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Old Leysian user box

message: Thought it appropriate to add a title to Palefire's concerns below.--Zoso Jade 20:41, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this definition isn't even so much draconian, as it is ill-defined.  In an encyclopaedia you must take a scientific and logically sound approach to things.  The definition of a term such as "Public School" must be rigid and clearly set out.  It cannot be based on unmeasurable and subjective terms such as reputation or historical importance or else we would have thrown ourselves deep into POV and no two people would have the same list of schools included.  Rather, the definition must be based on indisputible features of a school, for example fees, or membership of an association.  Whatever the definition of "Public School" you wish to put forward as a standard, whether a school falls into the category or not must be easily determinable based on the definition and the features of the school and not on how you feel about the school.  My personal feeling (as seems to be the general feeling on Wikipaedia) is that the term "public school" itself is too "fuzzy" to have in an encyclopaedia anyway.  I agree with what seems to be the standard Wikipedia practice of using the term "Independent School".--Zoso Jade 14:17, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Public school?

message: In addition to the Old Leysians reference, I feel there should be mention of Good-bye, Mr. Chips in the main text, as it's an important association for the school.  What do others think about this?  Also, The Leys is mentioned in Ben Schott's Original Miscellany as (IIRC) a public school with the catchphrase "Beards!" (which might help with your "public" definition, Tom) Link for Schott's Mishellany.
I remember many discussions with staff about the school's popularity with Japanese royalty (etc.) at the beginning of the century - this is probably mentioned in Geoff Houghton's book.  Perhaps somebody more knowledgeable could add this.
And I suspect the reason its fees approach those of Tonbridge is that it is the only boys' boarding school in Cambridge apart from CCSS...
Mark --81.7.4.9 21:17, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Goodbye, Mr Chips is now a section in the article.  I note that it has been copied from the main article and so I have edited it a bit to be more Leys-specific.--Zoso Jade 20:38, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  School references and far-East connection 

message: It is also not a prospectus or a place for students to write about their latest matches.  I've just removed a large amount of irrelevant and non-NPOV material (like who won in recent matches, and how hard the teachers work).  I've also corrected typos and added information where the present information was kinda meaningless.  Sorry I've done it all in one edit - I hope it's not too much to digest.
The main thing missing is Wikipedia:Verifiability.  Does anyone know of anything that could back up the stuff in this article?
I've created sections for the paragraphs on the school's history and religion.  It messes up the flow a little, but I don't think the crest image is good enough to place at the top right.  I'll try to dig out my good copy of it, and possibly create an infobox.
Mark --83.151.246.2 18:50, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki is not a soapbox 

message: Following extensive vandalism today I've reverted the article to the previous version (7 November), as despite the best efforts of others to repair things on a piecemeal basis several NPOV/local rivalry edits remained in place. I hope this is satisfactory to all concerned.
TO THE VANDALS: We all know of the Leys/Perse rivalry, but please keep it to more appropriate forums. RomanSpa 19:24, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this person has made a return unfortunately.  I accidentally accused the wrong person in my revert though.--Zoso Jade 16:32, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism of 17 November 2006 

message: Saw the merge suggestion on these two pages and thought I'd open the discussion.
*Oppose- there seems to be ample good content at the chapel article that would overbalance this one, and there are sources devoted to the chapel as a discrete entity. Gonzonoir (talk) 10:10, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merge from [[Memorial Chapel, The Leys School]]

message: Should a new section of The Leys be created, I was thinking of finding the history of the song Χαίρετε along with it's lyrics. Obviously it would just be a subsection of The Leys page. I could easily get hold of the lyrics, because their written in front of the Hymn book. Alos I was thinking of thinking of adding the rivalry that we share with The Perse I mean its quite noticeble, even Tatler mentions it in their school's guide. I was thinking of adding images of the chapel in it's page, but I don't know hw to. I would add images but can't and was wandering either that someone does it ofr me or tell me how to (thank you). Alos I was wandering if The Fortnightly should get a bigger mention on the page. Not so much a whole section but just a mention, though I was wandering where to put it. 
thanks  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 06whitec (talk • contribs) 20:42, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rivalry with The Perse/ Χαίρετε/Adding images of [[Memorial Chapel, The Leys School]]/ The Fortnightly 

message: This article seems to have been Vandalized multiple times today, by the IP 213.106.91.20. I've undone 2 edits in the last 10 minutes. --Kvoou (talk) 12:25, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article getting Vandalized by IP User 

message: To quote this article: "As with Mr. Chips, Balgarnie died at the school, at the age of 82 …". Mr Chips may have died at the school but according to the article William Henry Balgarnie he died at Portmadoc, this appeared to be confirmed by the entry in [freeBMD]! I propose that this statement be removed. — Saltmarsh🢃 14:10, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death of Balgarnie