The Subject for the Examination at Whitsmuntide (1856) for the Sixth were exclusive of Mathematics. Tacitus Annals Book 1 Aeschylus’ Eumenides Horace Epistles Book 1 Ep.1-19 Plaey’s Hora Paulina & the texts if the Apostles as far as they are wanted for the H.P. Demosthenes Leptines (for those who were in the form from Sept.…
St David’s day falling on Monday, there was leave out from Sat at 12 to Monday night A.F. Pope Pr.Opp.
A prize was got up this half (March 56) to be played for yearly with wooden rackets. The Subscription amount to [blank] being collected indiscriminately from T.Bs and Q.S.s. A.F. Pope Pr. Opp.
The Subject for Latin Prize Hexameter this year was “Marathon.” The Sixth, Remove & Shell entered compulsorily & did the verses during the Christmas Holidays (1855-1856). The Greek Iambic verses were from Shakespeare “Troilus and Cressida” verses “Troy yet upon his basis had been down” 33 lines. The subject for Latin Prose was the prospect of…
The Silver racket was won this year by Biscoe (Queen Scholars). A.F. Pope, Pr. Opp
There was no ditch leaping this year, as the day fell on Saturday when most fellows were out. There were names for the others at eleven o’clock in all the boarding houses. A.F. Pope, Pr. Opp.
Fri. April 4th.) Rev. T. W. Weare, the Under Master, who has since Liddell left Westminster, made it his business to interfere in every possible way with everybody else’s, chose to give in imposition to a Sixth T.B., Maples, a thing which no master can do up school or down, but the Headmaster. The imposition…
An early Play was given us on Monday Mar. 31stat the request of Lord John Thyme, on the occasion of Peace being concluded at Paris. A.F. Pope. PrOpp.
The following rule has been given out by Scott, under the supposition that it will have the effect of suppressing smoking. Feb. 1856 “In future Milibank & the Barges are to be out of bounds, the limitation that side being College Street and Abbington Street, except that Mrs Vickers’ & Staines’ shops, the Post Office…
On Tuesday Feb 5 (Shove Tuesday) while Berens, Tomyn, Hammil & FitzGerald T.Bs & Balfour & Harrington Q.Ss were quietly walking through Smith Square they were assaulted by a man leading a horse, who knocked Fitzgerald down & tried to do the same for Hammil, but was prevented by Berens who have him a licking.…