The subjects for the Prize Competition were as follows:- Dean Ireland’s (i) Greek Prose, More’s Utopia Bk ii ch 5. ‘The people’ – ‘chiefly themselves’. (ii) Greek Verse, Matthew Arnold’s ‘Tristan & Isolde’: ‘And is she happy’ – ‘today’s exact repeated effigy.’ (iii) Latin Prose, Bacon’s essays om ‘Revenge’ – Gumbleton’s English Verse, ‘Gordon’.
R.H. Coke, who was Head of Water in 1881, & went up to Trinity Hall in Oct. 1882, is has been rowing 7 in the Cambridge boat.
We are sorry to record the death of Mr Martin, the school bookmaker who died on Feb 5., after having served Westminster for 54 years.
A Chess Club has been formed & has played one tournament & a match v Masters in which it was victorious.
The Glee Club gave its fifth concert on Feb 17. The 3rd scene of the 3rd act of Much Ado about nothing, & a violin solo from Mr Troutbeck were the most noticeable features of the entertainment. The 6th concert was held on Mar 18, the greater part of which was taken up by scenes…
The subjects for Election are:- Homer, Iliads Books I-IV; Thucydides, Book IV; Cicero, Pro Murena & Pro Archia; Juvenal, Satires Books I-III; Grote, History of Greexe, Vol VI; Samuel Book I (Septuagint version).
Football Sat. Jan. 24 v. Old Malvernians – Lost (0-1) Wed. Jan. 28 v. Clapham Rovers – Won (1-0) Sat. Jan. 31 v. Reigate Priory – Lost (0-2) Wed. Feb. 4 v. Casuals – Lost (0-2) Wed. Feb. 11 v. Old Carthusians – Won (1-0) Sat. Feb. 14 v. Old Harrovians – Won (1-0) Lost…
It is with deep regret that I have to record the death of Francis Fuller James son of the Rev. Benj. Fuller James late House master of Rigauds which took place at Hungershall Park Tunbridge Wells on Feb 11. He entered the school in 1877 and left in 1882. He took a 2nd in Mods:…
Truly Westminster of the past is no more. Even the pancake is virtually abolished. Rutherford has dared to substitute for the good old Greeze a wretched tip of his own, a mere baby-play. He ordered each form to elect a representative who should be permitted to try for the pancake. Thus we had about a…
The House ‘conveniences’ have been shut up during the day and some awful ‘inconveniences’ erected at the back of Ashburnham House to supply their places.