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It is not simply party but school and college and county and country that lose their glamour. One does not hear nearly as much as our forefathers did of the "old Harrovian," "old Arvonian," "old Etonian" claim to this or that unfair advantage or unearnt sympathy. Even the Scotch and the Devonians weaken a little in their clannishness. A widening sense of fair play destroys such things.
"Some of the chaps' people won't like it," said Naylor, "certain not to. And it sounds Rum." "Sounds Weird," said a boy who had not hitherto spoken. "We aren't going to do anything Queer," said Shoesmith, pointedly not looking at Britten. The question of the title had manifestly gone against us. "Oh! HAVE it ARVONIAN," I said. "And next, what size shall we have?" said Cossington.
What of ARVONIAN? Richard Arvon was our founder, and it seems almost a duty " "They call them all -usians or -onians," said Britten. "I like CITY MERCHANDIZE," I said. "We could probably find a quotation to suggest oh! mixed good things." Cossington regarded me abstractedly.
It it impresses parents and keeps up our classical tradition. And the masters CAN help. We don't want to antagonise them. Of course we've got to departmentalise. Writing is only one section of the thing. The ARVONIAN has to stand for the school. There's questions of space and questions of expense. We can't turn out a great chunk of printed prose like like wet cold toast and call it a magazine."
"We ought to call it the ARVONIAN," decided Cossington, "and we might very well have underneath, 'With which is incorporated the OBSERVER. That picks up the old traditions, makes an appeal to old boys and all that, and it gives us something to print under the title." I still held out for CITY MERCHANDIZE, which had taken my fancy.
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