On Monday June 7th I and my brother and Robson were asked by H.R. James Q.S. captain to attend a monitors’ meeting on the following day to consider a case in which Sheridan (Grant’s) had shown great insubordination and insolent defiance to F.E. Lewin (Head monitor) whilst ‘picking up’ at Lawn Tennis and a second change was also brought forward in as much as he was alleged by H. Gwinner (HB) to have made insolent remarks at him in Cloisters :- This latter charge Sheridan absolutely denied to us, and most impertinently maintained his cause on the former charge. The monitors were then unanimous in their verdict, but Sheridan claimed the right of appeal to Dr Scott. A good deal of conflicting evidence now ensued, in which it appeared that Lewin had somewhat forgotten his dignity as a monitor, and Sheridan’s father also appeared on the scene. As the case had now assumed a complicated form, Dr Scott, whilst maintaining that Sheridan had added to his defiance of authority a considerable amount of ‘shuffling’ throughout, thought that the case has better not return to the monitors, and punished the offender in Library. Dr Scott, although we considered him somewhat vacillating at first, really behaved very well, and the monitors expressed themselves quite satisfied. The matter here dropt.
H.C. Benbow. Prin: Opp: