What I do want to say is this--it's one thing to discover that we are degenerate, and another to try to put ourselves right again.

And are we likely to do that as long as we are all at sixes and sevens, pulling different ways, caring far more about our own gratifications than the good of the whole school?
I don't think so, and I don't believe Mr Bloomfield does either.

Every fellow worth the name of a Willoughbite must be sorry to see things as they are.

(Hear, hear.) Why should they remain so?
Surely the good of the school is more important than squabbling about who is captain and which is the best house.

Of course, we all back up our own house, and, as a Welcher now, I mean to try if our house can't give a good account of itself before the term's over.
(Loud cheers from Pilbury, Cusack, Philpot, etcetera.) And if each house pulls itself up, not at the expense of a rival house--( Hear, hear)--but for the glory of the school--( Hear, hear)--we shan't have to complain of Willoughby being degenerate much longer.