No. 19
The Rev W. A. Heard succeeded at the mastership of Grant’s this term & takes the Upper Fifth Form. He comes from Fettes College, Edinburgh. C. Bompas/ Prin.Opp
Category: 1885
No. 18
Rev C.A. Jones, for 24 years mathematical master, and for over 17 years master of Grants’, left last term. The school gave him a pocket communion service (silver gift). His house presented him with a set of silver dessert knives and forks, at a farewell supper which he gave them. C. Bompas/ Prin.Opp
No. 17
Complaints were made to me of 2nd elections’ fagging T.B.B. which was considered contrary to rules. I looked up the T.B. Ledger and could find no rule which gave them such power, so asked Pryce & Sharpe to put notices ‘up Grant’s’ of & ‘Homeboarders’ to the effect that no TB need fag for a…
No. 16
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…
No. 15
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,…
No. 14
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,…
No. 13
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.
No. 12
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’.
No. 11
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.
No. 10
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.