Category Archives: School Customs

Monday December 14th

Spent most of the morning thinking out my speech for tonight which I eventually ‘got’ more or less. This afternoon I had my official practice as Head of House and all those who were going to sing at the Play … Continue reading →

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Friday December 11th

D. M. Low has got his Oriel Scholarship. Really I fell quite honoured to have two such distinguished friends. A scholar of Balliol, a scholar of Oriel and a fool in the middle. All the papers seem to have very … Continue reading →

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Thursday December 10th

1st Play Night I went out about 7 o’clock and Boult, Chapman, Low and myself sat together in the Gods where there was a fine squash every inch of room being filled and I had to take a child on … Continue reading →

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Wednesday December 9th

…I have been trying to console Low whose scholarship is being debated today, tomorrow we shall see if he gets anything. On Monday John Sargeaunt told me Sir Clements Markham wanted to see me and had a book for me … Continue reading →

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Tuesday December 8th

Barrington-Ward has got a Balliol Scholarship. Personally I am delighted but I still think it revolutionary and wrong from the Christ Church point of view. However it’s the blue-ribbon of Scholarships and as a friend I am more than pleased. … Continue reading →

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Friday December 4th

‘The World’ one of the papers asked this year for the first time [to the Latin Play], writes to thank for the tickets and asks if it may come down and take photographs so as to have a four (full?) … Continue reading →

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Thursday December 3rd

. Wood showed me the Epilogue and we with some difficulty made out some of the more abstruse jokes. Some of the Epilogue is very good though some of the jokes are very ‘small beer’. ‘D─üvus sum non Davis’ is … Continue reading →

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Wednesday December 2nd

I am sorry to hear this morning that the Archbishop [of Canterbury] is unable to come [to the Latin Play] this year owning to illness. I am beginning to realise how arduous the Captain’s business is this time of year, … Continue reading →

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Monday November 30th

Lord Macnaughton and Mr Justice Bigham and Parker have accepted for the play, the Marquis of Aylesbury has refused it; such is the Play news this morning. We racked our brains over newspapers this morning. I gather all the big … Continue reading →

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Saturday November 28th

The American Ambassador (Mr Whitelaw Reid) has much pleasure in accepting to come to the Play. Lord Wolverhampton (Sir Henry Fowler as was) would have liked to have come but is afraid that as the Education Bill will be on … Continue reading →

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Category Archives: School Customs

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Thursday December 10th

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