Oliphant September 2010
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Vol. XXVII September 2010 No. 5 The liphaWELHnAM BOYS StCHOOL THINK ABOUT IT... Those who like my work, raise your hands and those who don't like my work raise your standards... -Warren Buffet EDITORIAL 02 OLI FOCUS 10 WORD WAR 13 THE DREAM OF AN INDIAN 15 LAMPOON 17 The liphant The liphant IDE As the winter sun prepares to grace The Oliphant offers to you a rib- GS us with its presence, the rains have tickling Lasagne, which I am sure, will RIN finally started retreating. This year's relieve you of your tension. As monsoon was the worst possible always, this section of the Oliphant experience and it broke several talks about how Welhamites utilize records. Welham is ready for the the gift of 'time', optimally. l transition and we definitely appreciate 'Rising Intelligentsia' -as the name the winter sun above us. There is lot to suggests, gives you something to a look forward to in the latter half of the think about. It puts forth different i term as the forthcoming month perspectives to CCE (short for r promises to be frenzied and busy with Continuous Comprehensive Founder's just around the corner. Evaluation). Students will now have o This issue of the Oliphant is to face exams every month and will unfortunately delayed thanks to the be awarded marks on the basis of W t IE mid-term examinations. Since the their behavior, class conduct and WRAPV UP i editorial board did not want to socializing skills also. The football team started their season by compromise on quality, we took a Ringside View brings you up to date participating in the CBSE Cup. Both the d stand by postponing this issue to the with all the sporting events and there U-16 and the U-18 had high hopes as present date. The Oliphant board is to has been plenty of action in the both of them were the defending champions. However, hopes were soon be commended upon for taking it out sports field. in such a short span of time and, as shattered for the U-18 Soccer team who E the stand-in Editor, my grateful thanks Happy reading, suffered a defeat against the Asian School to everyone. Parambir Singh Bajaj in the semi-final. However, the U-16 team were crowned the champions again. After claiming the CBSE championship, the U- decide whether we would qualify for the 16 team looked forward to the District quarterfinals. We won the match 2-1 with championship. They kept their spirits up goals coming from Shivesh Kumar and as they won the District championship in a Umair Ali. In the quarterfinal we faced the nail biting penalty shootout (6-5) in the LETTER TO THE EDITOR RESPONSE Asian School again. This time we gave final against Colonel Brown School. The them a run for their money as we won the Dear Editor, just amongst schools but also Dear Ma'am, U-18 team, yet again, had a disappointing match 2-0 in a game which we totally amongst Universities and research performance as they crashed out in the Thanks for giving me the honour of It has been our privilege to acknowledge a dominated. Kishlay Jha put us ahead quarterfinal of the District championship "Dudette of the Month". I am really institutions. Over the years each one person every month for the service they through an early penalty and Shantabya going down to Carman School. humbled by the article. We all of us has contributed, (some by provide to this school and we, as a team, Rana hit an unstoppable volley into the contribute in some form or the other reading the books and removing the could not have thought of anyone more After a series of losses the school team back of the net just minutes before half to make the LRC a vibrant place. It is dust between the pages!) in making suitable than you. Maintaining the books wanted to prove their worth in the All India time. In the semi-final, we faced the RIMC Cup. In the opening match against very encouraging to see the it what it is today. in the LRC and at the same time keeping a defending champions, the Tibetan Nehru Doon International School the team came enthusiasm with which Welhamites We always endeavour to make LRC a check on the boys is no less than a Memorial School. We outclassed them on from a goal down, to win the match 2-1 the field but were unable to score a goal. come to the LRC to access books dynamic place, changing with time herculean task. And you perform this task with Umair Ali scoring a brace. Next, the The game came down to the penalty and information while maintaining using technology and looking of the with efficiency and for that, Oli team faced St. Joseph's Academy who shootout where we lost 3-2. The team's the sanctity of the place. needs of its users. Thanks once congratulates you, yet again. Thank you defeated us 3-1. The last match of the winning streak ended but they had good Ever since the LRC was built in 1990, again. for your response. Please keep writing to us. group stage against Doon Valley Public reason to be proud of themselves. Thanks it has been a benchmark library not Amita Kandhari School was crucial as its result would are due to the leadership of the captain, 02 03 The liphant The liphant IDE As the winter sun prepares to grace The Oliphant offers to you a rib- GS us with its presence, the rains have tickling Lasagne, which I am sure, will RIN finally started retreating. This year's relieve you of your tension. As monsoon was the worst possible always, this section of the Oliphant experience and it broke several talks about how Welhamites utilize records. Welham is ready for the the gift of 'time', optimally. l transition and we definitely appreciate 'Rising Intelligentsia' -as the name the winter sun above us. There is lot to suggests, gives you something to a look forward to in the latter half of the think about. It puts forth different i term as the forthcoming month perspectives to CCE (short for r promises to be frenzied and busy with Continuous Comprehensive Founder's just around the corner. Evaluation). Students will now have o This issue of the Oliphant is to face exams every month and will unfortunately delayed thanks to the be awarded marks on the basis of W t IE mid-term examinations. Since the their behavior, class conduct and WRAPV UP i editorial board did not want to socializing skills also. The football team started their season by compromise on quality, we took a Ringside View brings you up to date participating in the CBSE Cup. Both the d stand by postponing this issue to the with all the sporting events and there U-16 and the U-18 had high hopes as present date. The Oliphant board is to has been plenty of action in the both of them were the defending champions. However, hopes were soon be commended upon for taking it out sports field. in such a short span of time and, as shattered for the U-18 Soccer team who E the stand-in Editor, my grateful thanks Happy reading, suffered a defeat against the Asian School to everyone. Parambir Singh Bajaj in the semi-final. However, the U-16 team were crowned the champions again. After claiming the CBSE championship, the U- decide whether we would qualify for the 16 team looked forward to the District quarterfinals. We won the match 2-1 with championship. They kept their spirits up goals coming from Shivesh Kumar and as they won the District championship in a Umair Ali. In the quarterfinal we faced the nail biting penalty shootout (6-5) in the LETTER TO THE EDITOR RESPONSE Asian School again. This time we gave final against Colonel Brown School. The them a run for their money as we won the Dear Editor, just amongst schools but also Dear Ma'am, U-18 team, yet again, had a disappointing match 2-0 in a game which we totally amongst Universities and research performance as they crashed out in the Thanks for giving me the honour of It has been our privilege to acknowledge a dominated. Kishlay Jha put us ahead quarterfinal of the District championship "Dudette of the Month". I am really institutions. Over the years each one person every month for the service they through an early penalty and Shantabya going down to Carman School. humbled by the article. We all of us has contributed, (some by provide to this school and we, as a team, Rana hit an unstoppable volley into the contribute in some form or the other reading the books and removing the could not have thought of anyone more After a series of losses the school team back of the net just minutes before half to make the LRC a vibrant place. It is dust between the pages!) in making suitable than you. Maintaining the books wanted to prove their worth in the All India time. In the semi-final, we faced the RIMC Cup. In the opening match against very encouraging to see the it what it is today. in the LRC and at the same time keeping a defending champions, the Tibetan Nehru Doon International School the team came enthusiasm with which Welhamites We always endeavour to make LRC a check on the boys is no less than a Memorial School.