On the 9th of December being the 2d play night, the annual 6th Dinner was held at the Café de L’Europe in the Haymarket where it was held last year. It was very inferior and exorbitantly dear. So few fellows were in the 6th it was found necessary to ask of the Upper Shell The…
In consequence of the daily decreasing state of the school both in number and size, and the bad effects these evils entail on the power and importance of the fellows themselves I have thought it right to give a few reasons for this, which have fallen under my notice during my stay at Westminster. In…
On Saturday August 1st the annual Grand Match between the TB and KS was played. It continued pretty even during the first innings, when the KS were only a mere trifle in advance – But the dinner being between their second innings and our own – the juice of the grape told against some of…
On Wednesday the 22d (Friday being the day preceeding a saints day) the annual match was played between the Town Boys who had not played in the Grand Match the preceeding year and the Lamprobatics in which the former were beaten in one innings. The following is a list of the players. TB C.D. Osborn…
The names at the fields and in Dean’s Yard at ½ past seven at the former place and ¼ past eight in the latter which Williamson had abolished last year were this year reinstituted on account of the dinner at Putney on the occasion of the intended race (mentioned (168) and given at length in…
Williamson having proposed as a subject for an English Prize poem a translation of the chorus in the Hecuba several fellows tried for it and the best exercise being declared by Williamson to be that shown up by a Townboy, it was of course expected that he would have the prize, but in the interval…
During the Whitsuntide holydays the Rev John Bentall 2nd Usher married Miss Evered C. Bewicke Head Boarder *The Revd J. Bentall married Miss Harriet Everett of Salisbury – not Evered Added by C.D. Osborn HB
In consequence of the Scarlet Fever making its appearance in the school it was thought prudent to break up the school thereby adding a week to the Whitsuntide holydays. The seniors were obliged to stay for their Election. C. Bewicke Head Boarder
Ditch-leaping was this year, in order to lull the suspicions of the master, deferred to March 17th when this ancient custom was kept up by a large assemblage of fellows. In consequence of there being names at 11 o’clock (as usual on early plays) we were much hurried, and the KS fearful of being late…
The subject for the Dean’s prize verse this year (1835) was “The Niger” C. Bewicke Head Boarder