We were going to fetch the Shield before Abbey today but the final of the inter-house Fives interfered so eventually we went after Abbey between cheering mobs. When we got ‘up’ Home Boarders we found the Shield was screwed to … Continue reading
We lost the Drilling cup today to College, an almost foregone conclusion, though to our horror and alarm Home Boarders all but got it, the King’s Scholars winning only be one mark. Clarke came up to me and said some … Continue reading
Three times out of four we have beaten Home Boarders in a week. This evening Hobson F. and Graham won us the Gym Cup by a comfortable margin, King’s Scholars being second and Home Boarders last. Thus except Seniors (alas!) … Continue reading
The question is answered: ‘Passed, 3rd Class, Pt II Previous’. ‘Oh! Brave we’ as Dr Johnson used to say, what a genius I am. Gray and Goodall likewise have passed. Grant’s won both the Senior and Junior Gym Competitions tonight, … Continue reading
A real March day pouring rain and raging wind. Beastly!… Home-Boarders with that courtesy which is so marked a trait in such typical types as Bonner and Circuitt (The ‘Scis’ have lately delighted us by calling Circuitt ‘Shirk it’, a … Continue reading
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
Thanks be we have beaten Ashburnham by the narrow margin of one goal (1-0) after a good game. Went ‘up’ fields with Sargeaunt as I remarked to Low ‘our feelings were too sharply divided’ for us to speak to each … Continue reading
No further light has been thrown on the robbery. Father made an oration after Hall today on the subject and saw everybody who was down-fields that day but nothing much was discovered except that people (boys) were going through the … Continue reading