Rutherford made me captain of the School this year on the ground that there was no other Q.S. high enough in the Vith to fill the host. I have always thought & still think that the system by which I became one of the School monitors was a mistaken one, & i think there are…
L. James & B. M. Goldie have been elected to Oxford: J.E. Phillimore & H. B. Street to Cambridge. The Triplett Exhibitions were won by O. Roos & F. G. Miller & the Triplett Gratuity by C. Erskine.
The cricket season this year resulted in our beating Old Carthunians, Mr Tanner’s XI, an Oxford XI & Authentics, while we were beaten by Kennigton Park, Butterflies & charterhouse & draw with Lords & Commons, M. C. C. & the Masters. For further details view cricket ledger.
The T.B.B. & Q.S.S match resulted in a draw, but owing to the score being lost or some other reason, it has not appeared in the Elizabethan.
In the House matches Rigauds beat H.B.B. by 8 wickets & Grants beat Rigauds by 6 runs.
The Charterhouse match was played this year up Fields on July 1 & 2. Score. Charterhouse First Innings Second Innings D. C. Leman b. Street 78 Not out 6 R. Gatehouse C. Barwell b. Moon 98 Not out 9 E. B. Streatfield b. Probyn 9 C. Ragner b. Probyn 0 W.…
The swimming cup was again contested for this year at the Crown Baths & was won by Labertouche in 2 minutes 52 seconds. James was second. A 120 yards race under sixteen was also won by Labertouche & Paget was successful in diving for plates.
The Phillimore essay was this year won by L. James Proxime accent J. H. Cumming. J. I. Stirling. Prin.Opp
H. R. Williams has obtained a first in morphology at Oxford, J. B. Hodge, a first in modern history, C. T. Rogers a second class & L. F. Allan a third in Mathematical Mods.
Twelve places for the School were provided by Archdeacon Farrar at the service in St. Margaret’s on Sunday May 22, which was attended by the House of Commons. The representations of the school took part in the processions which went to meet the speaker & the Commons. The representatives of the school took part in…