The play this year was ‘Andria’. The acting was pronounced to be first-rate by all the Old Westminster enties. The characters were as follows: Simo = N. Bosanquet Sosia = A. Downie Davus = G. T. O’Brien Mysis = J. M. Yates Pamphilus = W. Phillimore Charinus = A. Stewart Byrrhia = N. Egerton Lesbia…
On the following Friday the Eton eleven came down. They played hard for more than [an] hour without any success on either side, till a length just as they were going to finish, one of the Eton men (Lyttleton) was thrown heavily. He fell with his arm twisted under him and was helped up with…
On Tuesday the 9th of December, the Harrow eleven again appeared up fields to play us at football. After about an hour’s play, in which neither side kicked a game, the two elevens dispersed, the Harrow men hurrying off to the train, our men to the bat room to spend the next hour, till lockhours,…
We have started a fund for the Lancashire operatives which I am sorry to say does not go on very well. We get about £1.10 a week out of the house, besides a regular donation from each fellow – varying from 10/- to 5/- each. E.R. Dowdeswell Prin. Opp.
Scott handed a fellow the other day for his imprudence to a master & on caning him in the Library expressed a wish (in my absence) that the Q.S.S. would look after the discipline of the Townboys a little better. On the strength of this O’Brien, head monitor, sent for the fellow who had been…
There has been a series of lectures delivered this half in the Library, once a week, by Dr. Noad on heat. They have proved very interesting and we have had questions on them for a prize, which was awarded to Egerton Q.S. 2nd Bandinel T.B. E.R. Dowdeswell Prin. Opp.
The captain wrote to the Archbishop Longley the newly made Primate, an Old Westminster, asking him to come down & beg for an early play for us. He wrote to say that Saturday (29th) was the only day he could come & as Scott had done away with early plays he did not come till…
Two days after the above had happened Bandinel a VIth T.B. told me his gold watch was gone from his cupboard in Chiswick. We consulted together & determined to examine everyone’s drawers, which we did on the following morning, but found nothing. The same day I was informed that a fellow named Bray had lost…
Hardly a week had elapsed after the last row when Scott asked me to inquire among the fellows, about a thermometer of his which he had lost from its place by his desk up school. Now it happened that a boy named T had been seen with a thermometer the night before the loss of…
For more than a year past, fellows in this house have from time to time been losing money, from their drawers, purses, etc. Just this time last year there was one of these rows shown up to Marshall. Everything was done to find out the culprit, but in vain. Of course, someone was suspected and…