The Athletic Sports were held on Friday and Saturday April 10th & 11th. This was the first year in which the Sports were held in the Spring. Friday was such a filthily wet day that Blackburn and Tanner, the authors of the change, were very crestfallen as they deeply felt the humiliation of having to…
The second and third elevens have been filled up as follows. Second Eleven G.G. Phillimore, J.W. Aris, J. Salwey, H.P. Lowe, E. Jervis, P.C. Probyn, R. Thornton, H. Wylde, H. Berens, J.E. Phillimore, J.H. Peck. Third Eleven R.H. Bellairs, L. James, C. Bompas, E.G. Moon, C. Grant-Wilson, J. Veitch, A.M. Balfour, J.S. Watt,…
Various letters have appeared in the papers slanging Rutherford, two in the Morning Post about the ‘pancake’, one in the Guardian and one in some of the Norfolk local papers. Truth has had 3 or 4 articles upon the Headmaster’s misdemeanours and in the number for March 19 the following letter appeared. Dean’s Yard. Westminster,…
C.F. Rogers gained an open Exhibition at Jesus, Oxon of the annual value of £50. C.J. Shebbeare gained an exhibition at Ch: Ch: Oxon.
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).