No 335
The Revd Rigaud took the Shell form & upper Fifth, & James the under fifth & fourth CFL West
The Revd Rigaud took the Shell form & upper Fifth, & James the under fifth & fourth CFL West
The Revnd H G Liddell having been appointed Head Master was introduced to us by the Dean up school in a lengthy speech in which Liddells merits were set forth. He is a man well known in the literary world having compiled a large & valuable Gk Lexicon, he was a student of Ch Ch…
I ought to have inserted before the list of 6th at the end of the term before the Bartholomew tide Holidays – it was as follows West Green* Home boarder Stebbing* Half boarder Hodgson Chambers senr Turle* Home boarder Chambers junr Scott
In consequence of the change of Masters & alterations in College we had 3 weeks added to our Bartholomew-tide Holidays C.F.L West Prin Opp
On Williamsons resignation the 6th presented him with a handsome silver epergne and stand, as the ushers Hodgson and Bentall also rec’d notice from the newly appointed Master that he had no need of their services the Shell, & 5 & 4 gave a silver waiter & bread basket to Hodgson & to Bentall a…
The Bishop’s boys about this term left off wearing the blue gown
It was currently reported all the half that Williamson was about to leave & so it proved, which he first made public at the Westr dinner. He gave us his reasons that the low state of the school & he said some seemed to think he was in the way of its rising and as…
The annual TB & QS cricket match was won this year by QS by 5 runs see Cricket Ledger__ The Lamprobatick between QS and TB was won by the later in one innings & 17 runs to spare See also Cricket Ledger C.F.L West
The Etonians being anxious to regain their lost laurels of last year sent us a friendly chalenge to row them again this year which we readily accepted, and having obtained Williamson’s leave which he kindly gave us very readily we commenced training under our old friend Noulton and after several attempts ineffectual to fix the…
Ditch Leaping was kept up this year with great spirit and was very well attended considering the present extreme low state of the school. C.F.L West OP.