No. 288
The ‘Phillimore Verse Translation’ was Dido’s speech in the Fourth Oeneid. HRK Rogers QS obtained the first prize. The ‘Prose Translation’ was taken from Plato’s Republic. GA Hicks first prize.
Category: 1876
No. 287
Cricket has not been flourishing this term. Almost all the matches played have been lost and it becomes more & more manifest day by day that Cricket & Boating cannot both live at Westminster. From the small number of 200 there are not sufficient fellows for both. One must go to the wall. That Cricket…
No. 286
Green seems to afford a constant source of occupation to Workmen without anything to do. In the Easter term it presented the appearance of a Barley field. This term at the beginning it appeared like a bad crop of grass, & now the grass has been destroyed & they have raked the surface afresh. Some…
No. 285
Two cricket matches have been played this term against foreign clubs. On Wednesday Curteis brought down a team. & On Wednesday Mantle got up a scratch Eleven. For particulars see T.B. Cricket Ledger. G.A. Hicks Prin. Opp
No. 284
The TBB in the Sixth this term are- G.A. Hicks S Maxwell P.J.C. Randolph & accordingly these three are the Town boy monitors. Scott has instituted a new regulation, that everyone delegated with authority should sign his name publicly in school. This rule has come into force this term for the first time.
No. 283
Bristowe, the late Head Town boy has left a considerable Gap in the Ledger, & though by so doing he lays himself open to considerable censure, the fact that he was writing hard for Election afford some justification for his neglect.