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Saturday March 27th

Father not getting up I had to take Prep this morning. After Prep Collier announced to me he had a rash what had he better do? I told him to go into Mrs Thresher’s room and subsequent investigation disclosed he … Continue reading →

Posted in Abbey, Discipline, Health, Literature, Religion | Tagged Bonner, Collier, Confirmation, George II, Gordon Reed, Guy Chapman, Henry VII's Chapel, Hobson, Horace Walpole, measles, Mrs Thresher, Nall, Smurthwaite, Wakefields | Comments Off

Tuesday March 23rd

I have had a very bitter disappointment. Grant’s were beaten by HBB in the Final for the Shield by 2-0. There is no doubt they were the better team but the defeat has made me very miserable and depressed. I … Continue reading →

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Friday March 19th

I went to breakfast (not being able very well to get out of it) with Jardine this morning who has rooms in Park Street. Roxborough, an Old Carthusian whom I knew slightly as he was a friend of Boult‘s and … Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, Local History | Tagged Adrian Boult, Brown, Cambridge Union, Charterhouse, examination, Jardine, Marlborough, Roxborough | Comments Off

Friday March 12th

The House Section had another drill this morning and were really a little smarter so I have done some good. They are still very bad but there was, I was glad to see, more ‘go’ in them today. Influenza and … Continue reading →

Posted in Literature | Tagged Coleridge, John Sargeaunt, Officer Training Corps, Shakespeare, Theodore Hook | Comments Off

Sunday March 7th

Went down to Oxted by the 1.10 with Father. F and K have been amusing themselves by making up an examination paper on Dickens, horribly difficult unless one knows one’s Dickens. Here are a few examples: ‘Whose regiment charged in … Continue reading →

Posted in Literature | Tagged Charles Dickens, Housemaster Tanner, oxted | Comments Off

Tuesday February 23rd, Shrove Tuesday

We had Prep at 7.30 today instead of 7.15, no fresh cases this morning… A much shortened 3rd hour owing to the Pancake, the bell going at 12.30 and for once in a way I had a good view of … Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, School Customs | Tagged A. C. Bradley, Anstey Guthrie, Austin Dobson, Barrington-Ward, E. V. Lucas, Francis Atterbury, Henry Beeching, J. H. Aitkin, John Sargeaunt, Low, Sidney Lee, The Greaze, Tomlinson | Comments Off

Sunday February 7th

I stayed in this morning and like, I trust, all good Dickensians celebrated the 97th anniversary of his birth. I started reading aloud A. E. Ward’s ‘Dickens’ in the ‘English Men of Letters’. I had read it before buy I … Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, Politics | Tagged Charles Dickens, Smurthwaite, The Professor | Comments Off

Tuesday February 2nd

After Hall we had a Committee Meeting of Shakespeare Society to discuss the question of the election of Estall as a member whom neither Low or myself are at all keen about having, but the matter is complicated by his … Continue reading →

Posted in Abbey, Literature | Tagged Bonner, Dr Scott, Estall, Gow, Low, Ranalow, Shakespeare Society, Westminster Abbey | Comments Off

Friday January 29th

Woke up with a raging headache so stayed in bed instead of getting up for Prep and eventually got down in time for breakfast at 8.15. The headache tanks to a strong dose of sal volatile passed off soon after … Continue reading →

Posted in Health, Literature, Theatre | Tagged Barrington-Ward, Christie's, Coronet theatre, Frank Benson, Gow, Miss Genevieve Ward, Mrs Murray Smith, Richard III, sal volatile, Shakespeare Society | Comments Off

Tuesday January 26th

I stayed in again this morning, as I could quite as well work in the House as over in Library and as I wrote to Ward in sending him the notes of Deb. Soc. for the Elizabethan ‘the prospect of … Continue reading →

Posted in Debating Society, Discipline, Health, Literature, Science, Sport | Tagged Barrington-Ward, Colquhoun, Debating Society, Dickson, Fives, Forbes, Gilman, Graham, Hobson, Literary Society, Milton, Minchin, Mrs Thresher, Natural History Society, Pemberton, Rawson, Shakespeare Society, The Elizabethan, The Professor, Whitmore | Comments Off

Category Archives: Literature

Saturday March 27th

Tuesday March 23rd

Friday March 19th

Friday March 12th

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Tuesday February 23rd, Shrove Tuesday

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Tuesday February 2nd

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