Talk:The Perse School

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Victuallers 09:22, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Unsourced

A few bits from the article that may well be true but I couldn't source:

  • The great grandson of Stephen Perse, Greg Tibbs, attended the school until his graduation in 2005.
  • Rosalind Runcie, pianist and wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury, attended the Perse School. (Seems unlikely, Perse was an all-boys school until very recently).

Soo 19:10, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Rosalind Runcie is listed as having attended the Perse School for Girls. -- Fingolfin 12:57, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Syd Barrett

I removed the bit about Syd Barrett going to the Perse - I couldn't find any sources to back it up. The only sources I could find (e.g. [1] and [2]) imply he didn't go to the Perse. - Pilchard 18:25, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Inside Out, Nick Mason's history of Pink Floyd and probably as reliable a source as any, states that Syd Barrett attended Cambridge County High School. Bengeo Bertie (talk) 15:04, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sir Robert Tabor

Is there any evidence for the claim that this person is an Old Persean? Or that he saved the life of King Charles II? I can't find any support from searching Google for these key words. Some dates may possibly match though... and a Sir Robert Tabor may have been born in Cambridge... Fingolfin 02:00, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

The Dictionary of National Biography does list him as an Old Persean. He was physician-in-ordinary to Charles II and also an apothecary, who was the first physician in Europe to use quinine to cure malaria. Although Tabor was away from court at the time, Charles II was prescribed quinine by one of his other physicians for a bout of malaria, which did save his life, and Tabor is usually now credited with this, since without him it would never have been used. So the article does in fact appear to be correct. -- Necrothesp 11:15, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Motto

I've contacted the Perse School's archivist who has confirmed that the school's usual translation of the motto is "He who works for others works for himself". However the same latin phrase is widely quoted in legal circles with the alternative translation. I have found a single website which states that this latin phrase is a quote from Pope Boniface VIII (1235-1303) [3] using the school's preferred translation. - MightyWarrior 10:40, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marketing / Promotion

I'm concerned that some aspects of the article could be seen as promotional. I doubt it's in the best interests of the school for an attempt to be made to maintain an article which does not seem to strive for objectivity. I didn't want to wade in and start editing yet - what do people think? I'll come back later and pick up on some specific examples of what I mean. --87.194.21.177 16:38, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

I think the article provides a reasonable mix of positive and negative facts and nothing in the way of original research. However I wrote quite a bit of the article as it stands and it's hard to review one's own writing. I'm willing to be corrected by more specific articles. Soo 23:33, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Marked it as advert. Began taking out worst. Removed links to other Perse enterprises. It's probably appropriate to have these somewhere but as they were it seemed like "your child may also be interested in the following great products..." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.203.189.22 (talk) 22:41, 14 May 2008 (UTC)