Audere, agere, auferre. To dare, to strive, to conquer. For generations, privileged young men have attended st. Oswald's grammar school for boys, groomed for success by the likes of roy straitley, the eccentric classics ...Audere, agere, auferre. To dare, to strive, to conquer. For generations, privileged young men have attended st. Oswald's grammar school for boys, groomed for success by the likes of roy straitley, the eccentric classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years.