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In my days there wasa a hymn book monitor. I know 'cos I was one. Not much to it except I got to give the better, less tattered ones to my friends. By the way I like the image conjured by describing the journey from playground to Assembly Hall as 'syphoned'. Nice one!
I am sure some of us remember singing corrupt words at Assembly. Maybe the best was 'His first avowed intent , to be a GRIMPILL' or 'Hark the herald angels sing, Beechams Pills are just the thing'. There are many others.
I remember two hymns in particular: before Christmas "Brightest and best of the suns of the morning" and at the end of the school year "O'er the harvest,reaped or lost, Falls the eve;our tasks are over" Were these still sung into the 1950s and 60s?Gobbo always played the piano in my day and prefects read the lesson on a rota system.How well or badly I read I don't remember but I still read in church,I suppose for my sins though I do at least have a microphone (and know how to use it unlike some - though I have had many years of practice!)PA systems were of course unheard of in schools in my day but Nev.Hind had a good loud voice.
'Brightest and Best' is still sung, essentially as a Christmas Hymn. However your second mentioned hymn I have never heard of, despite being a church organist for 50 years (I was organist at Fell Lane Chapel from age 14, later Lund Park)