The Four House Flags flying above the war memorial and the light blue  and dark blue School Flag proudly flutter and “stand foursquare…… to every wind that blows”. Interestingly, it was September 1898 that the School settled its School colours. Having beaten all local teams in football, the school team decided to enter the 3rd Durand Tournament, for which the team had to wear colours. “Mr. B.C. Smith, one of the masters, proposed light blue and dark blue, as signifying the two universities Oxford and Cambridge, from whence we obtained the majority of our educational staff. This proposal being accepted with acclamation.” Just beyond the School Flag is the school bell housed in a small shed. Silently it watches the boys at work and play year after year. Rouser is still at 6.15 a.m. Lights out at 9.20p.m. There are many boys who can jump out of bed on the first stroke of the chota hazri bell and be down at P.T. in time. The wet towel often substitutes for a beastly cold basin of water . Beyond the bell and in the far distance in the West is the Tara Devi Gap aflame with scarlet and gold and in the East-steel blue. Just beyond the bell the famous Gnat aircraft, presented by the Air Chief on 1st June 1990, in honour of Old Cottonians who joined the RAF, RIAF and IAF, amongst them an Air Chief Marshall and a Sqn. Ldr. Who won the coveted Vir Chakra in an air battle.