No 544
This year the Townboys carried off both the Triplets-
A.F. Pope obtaining one and L. Shadwell the other
W.E. Dowdeswell, Pr. Opp.
Category: 1858
No 543
The subjects for the Whitsuntide Examination were:
Homer, Books 7-12, Iliad
Virgil, Books 7-12
Thucydides, Book 4
Euripides, Alcestis
Cicero in Verrem II.5
Juvenal Satires, 5.7.8.10.11.12.13
Epistle to the Galatians with Acts 15-28
Liddell’s History of Rome, page 412 to end
Subject for the Ireland Prize “Columbus”
For Greek Iambic Prize Milton, Paradise Lost Book 4
“Thou that, with surpassing glory crowned –
To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.”
For Latin Prose Speech of Tib. Sempronius Gracchus on his Agrarian Bill
No 542
The Townboys beat the Queen Scholars in the T.B. & Q.S. race this year: the particulars are in the Water Ledger.
A.F. Pope, Pr. Opp.
No 541
The Pancake was won this year by Borvill Q.S.
A.F. Pope Pr Opp
No 540
We had three lectures up school in March from Russell, who read pasts of three Shakespeare plays, King Lear, Merchant of Venice, & Henry IV.
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No 539
We had an early play on March 1st as usual – no leave out, though it fell on a Monday. Lord Lansdowne asked for one on the 17th. We also had leave out on Easter Monday, as an equivalent to Good Friday.
On the 27th of March the Eight had leave to see the Oxford & Cambridge race.
We had an early play which was asked for by Mr. Mowbray, an Old Westminster who had taken office under Lord Derby; April 10th.
This year the early play which we usually have the day after the last challenge, the Min. can. early play, unfortunately “coincided”, as Scott said, with one that he had promised us to honour Mr. Southey, who has obtained a first class at Oxford; we could not get both from Scott.
A.F. Pope, Prin. Opp.
No 538
The Silver Racket was this year won by Henty Q.S; the Wooden Racket by Waters Q.S.
A.F. Pope Prin. Opp.