Tuesday February 9th
. After Hall Low and myself wandered around Cloisters and lay in wait for Dr Scott who had promised to take us up into the Muniment Room which he accordingly did. He was very nice and showed us various things, … Continue reading
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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
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Friday February 5th
I am really delighted to say we have won the first cup it was possible for us to win in my year of office. Our Junior Team today defeated College (1-0) and have thus won the Junior Cup. I have … Continue reading
Posted in Discipline, Health, Sport
Tagged Cargill, Clarke, College, Geoffrey Dearmer, Gordon Reed, Hobson, Hodgson, Mason, Minchin, Potter, Sargeaunt, Smurthwaite, Sorley, The Professor
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Thursday January 14th
Lent Term begins I was down in comparatively good time for breakfast this morning which is more than I can say for most of the house which was disgracefully late. Father made a raid into Big Dormitory and hurried them … Continue reading
Posted in Discipline, Local History, Science
Tagged Abbey, Ashburnham House, Barrington-Ward, Hobson, John Sargeaunt, Marriott, Ralph Tanner, Rawson, Smurthwaite, Sorley
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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
Posted in Music, School Customs
Tagged Adrian Boult, Baby on the Shore, Balliol, Barrington-Ward, Cargill, Christ Church, Frampton, Latin Play, Oxford, Smurthwaite, The Professor
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Saturday October 24th
I really believe we have succeeded in squashing Whitmore, he seems subdued today, though he poses as a martyr and I gather rather that Hall disapproved of his execution. I expect that I am unpopular for the moment but it … Continue reading
Posted in Abbey, Discipline, Food, Science
Tagged Barrington-Ward, Benvenisti, Fagging, Gow, Gow jnr, Heaton-Ellis, Low, Mrs Raynor, Natural History Society, Prince Regent, Robert Peel, Robinson Duckworth, Smurthwaite, Sorley, The Spectator, Trealt, Whitmore, William Makepeace Thackeray, Wood
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Thursday October 15th
Hobson went into breakfast with Father this morning so I was left alone. ‘Middle’, perhaps only my imagination, seemed rather constrained and I was quite glad when the meal was over. We had a somewhat unexpected ‘play’ today so we … Continue reading
Posted in Debating Society, Discipline, Politics, Sport
Tagged Barrington-Ward, Brown, Debating Society, Forbes, Gow, Hobson, Hodgson, Licensing Bill, Marriott, Miles, Play, Rawson, slang, Smith, Smurthwaite, The Professor, Tunnecliffe, Whitmore
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Wednesday October 14th
I cannot fathom the latest turn affairs have taken. To all intents and purposes I am forgiven by all concerned while poor Hobson still remains under a cloud. At lunch today Father left us and it was a little awkward … Continue reading
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Tagged Cockerell Hobson, Colquhoun, Fagging, Hobson, Marriott, oyster shells, Rawson, Smurthwaite, Whitmore
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Sunday October 11th
Last night at 9.30 I was up in my room with the light on when whoever it was who had had a bath came out of the bathroom. Seeing the light he scuttled up stairs and I heard a loud … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Local History
Tagged Cargill, Smurthwaite, South Kensington Musuem
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Thursday October 8th
. Today the new boys commence fagging so I got hold of Smurthwaite and told him he needn’t fetch Father for lunch, little Tunnecliffe better do it — to which he replied in a disappointed manner ‘Oh needn’t I. I … Continue reading
Posted in Discipline, School Customs
Tagged Barrington-Ward, Debating Society, Eton, Fagging, Forbes, G.B. Wilson, Harrow, Lord John Russell, Smurthwaite, Sorley, Tunnecliffe, Winchester
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